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Liam Cassidy
9,739 PointsCheap and Reliable Hosting
Hello,
I am starting to build resume websites for friends to use professionally. I want to provide them with the cheapest and most reliable hosting. I am currently looking into A Small Orange's Tiny plan (https://asmallorange.com/) which costs 35$ a year. I also noticed GoDaddy has $1/month hosting as well for personal websites. Is GoDaddy a better option?
For Background: I am creating responsive websites using jquery, javascript, bootstraps and google-fonts. I expect the websites to be relatively low traffic.
Any input would be helpful because I would like to provide my friends with the best deals out there.
Thanks in advance!
Liam
7 Answers
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 PointsYou might give Heroku a look too. It starts out free and scales from there. While it can pretty expensive with high traffic, high computing websites, it will (hopefully) be paying for itself by that time.
Also, you can always move the site to a different host if one doesn't work out for you... just make sure that you control your DNS registration, not your host.
Jeremy Woodbridge
25,278 PointsIf you are hosting for the first time, thankfully since you're a member of Treehouse their is discounted hosting at webhosting for students and the teachers show it being used quite a bit, and it even supports Wordpress functionality if you plan on ever investing time learning that
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 PointsThis is the better answer. Do this.
Ricky Catron
13,023 PointsI personally like openshift. It has a great free play and a lot of customization options so you can try a large variety of things. It is a little more difficult to get started with because it uses GIT to send files to the server and a few other differences. I would also look at Siteground. I have not personally used them but I have heard fabulous reviews.
Goodluck! --Ricky
Andrew Stelmach
12,583 PointsI can vouch for dnsimple.com. It's simple to use!
Adam N
70,280 PointsI've been using a Small Orange since May, and it's been great. Better than the other host that I've paid for - Host Metro.
gqylvrodjc
4,945 PointsI use Namecheap and have been quite pleased.
rays0
16,293 PointsDoes the namecheap value hosting include easy Wordpress install?
Liam Cassidy
9,739 PointsLiam Cassidy
9,739 PointsThanks for all the help guys! These are all great options.
I am thinking of hosting on Heroku so that I can give my friend a way to update his page without contacting me. I think I'll abstract the coding process by creating a form he can fill out to update the pages and then the form will use node.js to input html elements with preset classes that will conform to the site layout. As far as I can tell Heroku's free option also allows a custom domain name (correct me if I'm wrong) so I should be set there.
Jeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 PointsJeff Jacobson-Swartfager
15,419 PointsThat sounds great!
As far as the domain names go, Heroku will allow you to create custom subdomains all day. If you want a custom root domain, you'll have to register it with a DNS registrar and then configure Heroku. Luckily, domain name registration tends to be pretty cheap!
Let us know how it goes!