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Rouillie Wilkerson
10,419 PointsWhat assets or alternative hosting options would you recommend?
I've a project on codepen that I want to add images too. How can I get images and videos on my website without paying for codepen's premium or pro asset hosting service? I need some recommendations and functional suggestions for free options at a minimum, and paid services at a maximum. Other than github, please...
Thanks in advance for your help! Rouillie Wilkerson
2 Answers
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsI know you said "other than GitHub", but GitHub Pages is honestly probably your best bet. They're the only place I can think of that will host a static site for free, and managing your site with them is super easy (it's as simple as git push). Anything else is either going to cost you or be really difficult to set up/configure
I'd love to hear everyone else's suggestions, too
Rouillie Wilkerson
10,419 PointsWell, if that's the case with GitHub, I was duped into downloading something I thought was necessary. Nice...Not.
Rouillie Wilkerson
10,419 PointsRouillie Wilkerson
10,419 PointsThank you for your suggestion. I suppose I should have been more transparent. Only a few years back when I first started dabbling with coding, I downloaded GitHub, and had nothing but problems with my computer not to mention finding GitHub almost impossible to remove when one does have issues! So yes, I've heard great things about GitHub, but I was really put off by this back in 2016. Maybe things have changed...I don't know.
Michael Hulet
47,912 PointsMichael Hulet
47,912 PointsWhat system are you running? GitHub is a website, not something you install on your computer, though they do have a desktop program to interact with their website. I don't like their desktop client, though, and I like doing the manual way of interacting with them directly via git. You can learn more about git and how to use it on the Introduction to Git course and GitHub's own awesome list of resources. It'll also be good to know about Git Branches and Merging, and Treehouse also has a specific course on GitHub Basics. You really don't need to know all of that do do what you want to with GitHub Pages, though. I promise it's super simple. GitHub has a 4-step walkthrough on how to get it set up. If you use GitHub like I do, you'll be doing it via a terminal, though if you're on Windows, you'll probably have to install from their website. It comes preinstalled on pretty much every other operating system, though, including macOS