Personal website - Advice

Gloomendoom

I started a thread recently asking about reasonably priced web hosting.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5178759

I decided to go with Falcoda in the end. So far, so good.

http://www.falcoda.co.uk/

buglawton

If you plan to use your own domain, 000webhost still seems to be outright free for hosting, I used them in the past for years.
http://www.000webhost.com/
Just ensure your site never gets used to originate spam or it'll get shut down. The email works from your domain but is hosted by Google (or was when I used it)

Mr_Toad

Well the problem has resolved itself.

Last night in the pub I had a bit of an epiphany. Years, and I mean years, ago I created and maintained several sites on free hosting servers for various clubs and interest groups.

I had a quick look a two of them are still there after all these years and my server and FTP access still works. The clubs and groups are long since gone.

So, I shall be removing the old pages and files and building my new site on one of them.

kwikbreaks

Too late now but as you mentioned Raspberry Pi I'll mention that even the B+ running lighttpd would have enough grunt for the sort of site you envisage.

Amongst other things mine does such as run weatherstation software and a feed for flightradar24 I use one to regularly poll and monitor responses of my sites on a commercial host and show the results in a web page. As an experiment I even cloned one of my wordpress sites onto it - it did struggle with that but I suspect the new one might even manage that.

Luckily I can get a fixed IP with Plusnet otherwise it would require a dyndns or similar account to remain reachable.

Mr_Toad

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Too late now but as you mentioned Raspberry Pi I'll mention that even the B+ running lighttpd would have enough grunt for the sort of site you envisage.

Amongst other things mine does such as run weatherstation software and a feed for flightradar24 I use one to regularly poll and monitor responses of my sites on a commercial host and show the results in a web page. As an experiment I even cloned one of my wordpress sites onto it - it did struggle with that but I suspect the new one might even manage that.

Luckily I can get a fixed IP with Plusnet otherwise it would require a dyndns or similar account to remain reachable.

I've got a new Pi and it's so much better than the original. My original is built into a robot and is no longer needed for anything else now the new one has arrived.

When I got the new one I installed Evolution for email and it's very usable for browsing, email and general everyday PC duties.

I've transferred my weather station to it and running that in the background makes no appreciable difference to performance and I've yet to see the CPU usage rise above 55%.

jeremymartin139

godaddy always has promo for 1$ domain for 1 year and hostgator for 1 cent first month but there are tons of free hosting

Fightsback

jeremymartin139 wrote: »

godaddy always has promo for 1$ domain for 1 year and hostgator for 1 cent first month but there are tons of free hosting

The trouble with free is that you get what you pay for.

trotter09

Not sure if I should start a new thread for this but here goes anyway...

I have a site I want to move from a free hoster. The site is <1GB of data but some months has bandwidth of 30GB. It's built in raw HTML so I don't need fancy webbuilders - nor anything else fancy like searches or user posting. What I do want is zero downtime. Not too price sensitive. Up to £70 a year seems to get what I need.

Reading other threads, it seems difficult to get advice that's impartial. But any suggestions welcomed. I've looked at GoDaddy, 1&1 and WebHost.Uk.Net so far and all look like contenders.

onomatopoeia99

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Too late now but as you mentioned Raspberry Pi I'll mention that even the B+ running lighttpd would have enough grunt for the sort of site you envisage.

I was running apache on raspbian on an original model B and it was pretty slow, especially with mysql backed stuff (e.g. mediawiki).

Wasn't short of memory, I think the multi-tasking was a bit rubbish. Was going to try a B+ but have since bought a Dell R710 to run my server, which does the job admirably (and much more besides, thanks to VMware esxi). Only problem is the noise from the multitude of fans.

Mr_Toad

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

I was running apache on raspbian on an original model B and it was pretty slow, especially with mysql backed stuff (e.g. mediawiki).

Wasn't short of memory, I think the multi-tasking was a bit rubbish. Was going to try a B+ but have since bought a Dell R710 to run my server, which does the job admirably (and much more besides, thanks to VMware esxi). Only problem is the noise from the multitude of fans.

Don't bother with the Pi model B+, it's a bit better but not much.

I would suggest you try the Pi2 it has a quad core processor and 1GB RAM and is so much faster and more capable. For what they cost it would be rude not to.