Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by tdhttt on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:43PM (#26598710)

I am doing this and it's fun! The only hassles I had are a. setting up DDNS (since I don't have a static IP) and b. getting a certificate from Let's encrypt with only port 443 open (80 is blocked by my ISP). But other than that, it has been great! Hopefully my ISP won't have a problem with that ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by jjacobson93 on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:42PM (#26599730)

I just use a script on a cron that runs every 15 minutes and updates my DNS provider. And for let’s encrypt, I use the DNS verification method so you don’t have to even expose HTTP(S) ports if you don’t need to

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by dominikstr on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:28AM (#26600640)

I wrote a small go app[0] which is invoked every 15 minutes and updates the DNS through the cloudflare API. Its very specific for my use case and ISP but works well.

[0] https://gitlab.com/dominikstraessle/homelab-dns

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Re:Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? by 3np on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:11AM (#26602861)

Cool! There's also certbot[0] and lego[1] which can do ACME-DNS with a range of providers beside CF. You could also do tls-alpn, which allows you to do do the challenger encrypted on another port. Sounds like DNS works fine for you, but it's primarily worth considering for those issuing certs for non-public names that shouldn't be broadcasted via public DNS.

[0]: https://github.com/certbot/certbot

[1]: https://github.com/go-acme/lego

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