I’m considering creating another personal website, but for more formal things like writing articles and programming updates, as opposed to the usual blog stuff I have on my Neocities site. It’ll also have a simpler design, optimised more for reading than having a fun appearance.

Unless the generic domain is particularly nice, I’ll buy a domain from Namecheap; but Neocities requires a subscription in order to use a custom domain, so does anyone have any suggestions for cheap or free web hosting that I could use?

  • This would be primarily a static site. I can write decent HTML, and I would ideally either code by hand or use a Markdown -> HTML converter. I will not be using any funky frameworks, as I feel they are unnecessary and will prevent the site from working properly in old and limited browsers (such as Lynx).

    I might like Gemini or Gopher support, but that’s not a priority. Git, SFTP, or WebDAV syncing would be handy for editing. Other than that, though, I wouldn’t need any other features.

    I hadn’t considered Cloudflare, but I’ll look into it.

    • If you might be looking at more general mucking about, Oracle’s “always free” tier is pretty good. Yes, you might have to set aside decades of hate for Oracle like I did, but it’s not like I’m ever giving them any money.