[kwlug-disc] ***SPAM*** Re: Free web storage for static HTML?

[Jason Locklin]

On Sun Oct 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM EDT, Chris Frey wrote:
> Alternate options:
>
> 	* get a shell on http://freeshell.org/
> 	* get a shell at https://www.thc.org/
>
> A web search shows these options:
>
> 	https://pages.edgeone.ai/use-cases/free-html-hosting
> 	https://static.app/free-website-hosting
> 	https://tiiny.host/free-static-website-hosting/
>
> There are also VPS cloud solutions out there.  Some offer minimal
> resources for free.  I *think* Google cloud has a minimum free tier.
> Oracle cloud, while their interface is confusing, offers a free
> cloud VM (I have one myself).  And really, there are quite powerful
> VM's available from places like digitalocean or OVH for around $5/mo.
> OVH was recently advertising their new VPS line of 4vCores, 8G RAM,
> 75 G SSD disk, and 400 Mbps bandwidth for $6.80/mo Canadian.
> That's a lot of machine.  You can probably find something smaller and
> cheaper.  For serving static webpages, you only need 512M RAM, and 1 CPU.

Oh no! I just recently migrated my OVH VPS to a worse deal and 'committed' to 2 years. 2 vCores, 2gb memory and 40gb storage for about the same price! The only thing with the old pricing was it had gigabit network - which is actually good for my use-case. You live you learn: don't commit to vps pricing. I do still recommend them if you want a non-US VPS (European ownership and Canadian infrastructure). Not free and a lot of learning just to host static html though.

For free, there's also the various tilde projects on tildeverse.org (with varying levels of activity), SDF.org of course, Codeberg pages, Neocities, and others:
=> https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/resources-list-for-the-personal-web/49#p-63-free-webhosts-22


Github is probably the easiest and most reliable place to throw up some static html, but there are more interesting options if you prefer a more "community" approach. After trying to make "free" websites in the 90s and suffering through all those inserted ads, it's kind of amazing that the actual cost of hosting static websites is basically a rounding error for both corporations and community projects nowadays.