Whoops! Hit “send” too soon: Meant to add Hetzner as a “nice” corpo option, not open source/non-profit. The last one under the “nice” corpo category is Hurricane Electric ( https://dns.he.net/ ) - not EU based, but seems reasonable. I’ve used their IPv6 tunnelling services back when I was stuck with Rogers and wanted IPv6 (Rogers did not support IPv6 back then): https://tunnelbroker.net/ Rouben rouben＠rouben.net wrote:
You can use any of the following. All of these have a free tier:
Static website hosting:
Big bad corpo ownership: - Github Pages: https://docs.github.com/en/pages - Cloudflare Pages: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/ - Azure Static Websites/Webapps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview (there’s a free forever tier with storage/bandwidth limits and is unnecessarily complicated to use compared to the above; it’s a Microsoft “enterprise” product after all) - Oracle cloud storage: https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-api-gateway-web-hosting/index.html (also storage based, likely a few bucks if you exceed the “always free” limits; requires credit card to create the account)
Big bad corpo (non-free; in case there’s a desire to learn these things): - AWS S3 storage: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/hands-on/latest/host-static-website/host-static-... (a few bucks a month) - Google Cloud storage: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website (likely also a few bucks a month) - Azure storage: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blob-static-we... (also based on storage costs, which should be a few bucks monthly)
Non-profit/not so bad corpo ownership: - Gitlab Pages: https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/pages/ - Codeberg Pages: https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/
With regards to dynamic DNS and DNS hosting:
Corpo but generally nice in terms of functionality, offering and usability: - https://cloudflare.com/ - rock solid, generous free tier, supports dynamic updates via API and a whole lot of open source and closed source dyndns updaters. They also sell domains at cost (i.e. they don’t make a profit off InterNIC reseller costs), but you have to host DNS with them. - https://porkbun.com/ - hands down my favourite domain registrar. Also offers free DNS hosting (I think for domains you got from them). Service based on Cloudflare.
Non-profit/open source: - https://desec.io/ - solid, used them for years, EU based, completely open source infrastructure - https://www.duckdns.org/ - probably someone’s overgrown homelab project, but has been around for years - https://www.hetzner.com/dns-console/ - a nice EU based hosting provider with a bunch of services (including reasonably priced VMs). DNS hosting is free and supports dynamic updates. - a European Internet core ISP, provides a bunch of paid and free services, including free DNS hosting with dynamic updates via API support
I hope these lists help you on your journey. Here’s an example of a website developed in Grav ( https://getgrav.org/ ), exported as static HTML, and hosted on Cloudflare pages via a git push: https://unifordental.ca/
Rouben
William Park wrote:
Trying to help out few non-techie people, but I'm also interested personally... How do you make few *static HTML* files available online for *free?* I looked at * Google Site -- you can't upload html file * Dropbox -- it shows you the text content of HTML files. * GitHub -- same thing. Failing that, I'm considering * Put the files on USB stick, and plug it into router. It has web/file server. I would have to register DDNS, though. * Set up web server on a Linux computer. But, I don't want to be "tech support".