Static hosting can be found free on sites like gatsby.

Ok yeah now that I think about it there are ways to host for free, github pages also comes to mind. Not exactly elegant solutions though. Makes the domain expense even worse in that respect.

Standard domains (com/net/org) are super cheap, around $1 per month.

> Not exactly elegant solutions though.

How come? I think services like GitHub pages are a great way to host a static site.

By large you tend to be severely limited by size and traffic. Github's also very slow to update changes and can't host private repos either.

I remember using 000webhost back in the day, their free plan had an uptime of "maybe".

imihajlov.com would cost around 10 USD per month and as another reply mentioned, static site hosting is free. I guess it's a bottomless pit but it's "only" 10 USD and it's nice to have.

Sure, but that would add up to $1200 in a decade of hosting which is substantial and the timespan one'd likely run it for. People buy a $1k PC every 5 years and consider it a large expense, why not this?

I can find it for much lower though, like $8/year? Then again that's on namecheap who then raise rates when you go in to renew lol.

The site is already being hosted, I was only talking about a domain name, so at ~$10/year or whatever it is now, that's only $100 a decade over whatever he is paying now for hosting using a free domain.

That's 10 years of benefiting from a real domain name for the cost of... a very long list of pointless $100 goods and services.

It's a couple of cents per day.

I'm sure GP meant /year, not month. Pricing's always (as far as I've ever seen) per year for one thing, but also it's not 120 (or more) unless your name's Ford or something. (Damn it.)

Surely you mean 10USD per year? If you are paying that per month just for the domain you are being ripped off :)

Correct, I meant per year

A .com domain for US$10 per *month*? That doesn't round right, it's not even that per year.

Yeah but what if it’s a cool domain? Then it’s a cool bottomless pit.

The cooler the name, the deeper the pit.

I’m very proud of my site (and the URL) reboot dot love, which I haven’t done much with lately but I want to! Also yeah I need to fix my SSL cert. the server is giving me grief. Bottomless pit of time and money yaaay.

SSL certs can be free and auto-renewing. set and forget

Yep. Server is just having some weird issues. I’m using Lets Encrypt but something isn’t right.

I need to find something to do with onlyfandans.com, even if it's probably only funny in Scotland.

It very well might be, if you value publicity for your hobby, the greater reach might be worth it to you. If you can get 10,000 readers instead of 90 readers because your links are shareable...

If we think about potential dollars, though:

The bottomless pit isn't very deep, it's a few dollars a year.

If it nets you one single short-contract offer (nevermind a job) or worthwhile contact because someone found your work, it'll pay itself off many, many times over. Let's say one person found him and offered him a $3000 contract to do some electronic thing for a week, well, then the cost of the domain and hosting won't matter for the rest of his life.

The mere fact that this guy has an oscilloscope out means he has skills that someone might want to contact him about in relation to his blog.

Limiting yourself for want of a $10/year domain name is probably not a great idea, and again, it's something I learned the hard way.

The thing with TK is, it costs nothing upfront, but the internet is bursting with countless reports that if your site eventually becomes popular, TK domain admins might outright snatch it from you for their own ads, without the possibility of seeking retribution as it's all in their TOS ... https://getfreedomain.name/domain/tk/