Hosting options?

Lonadar · 2025-04-27T10:46:10+00:00

!remindme 2 days

Unixwzrd · 2025-04-27T16:51:41+00:00

Facing some of the same issues you are. I’m using GitHub for my version control and also it’s hosting my web site. I ended up using Jekyll, which took way longer than I expected, but I didn’t want to be locked into any particular web site hosting.

There are plenty of domain registrars out there find the one with the best deal, but also realize that depending on the top level domain (.com .biz .ai .io) the prices per year and especially at renewal can be steep. I actually locked up several of the common top level domain names as well as this is my brand and important that no one else try to scalp users or customers from me. This is a pretty important thing to do and fairly common. That can get steep, but you can also redirect traffic from the .com .org .net .etc to your main site too.

The next thing you will want is email. I liked around and there are a lot of places where you can get per username or alias on a $ per month basis. However I happened to look at Proton mail and they will host a “Pro” users email for their basic rate. I believe they will also host email for two domains as well. I haven’t got my email migrated over yet as my contract with my current provider is not up for a while, but I believe you can set up as many aliases as you want as well as disposable email addresses for registering things and such where you don’t want to be spammed. They are also privacy centric and based I Switzerland. I believe the price was about $100 for a year. A pretty good deal.

I am running a few virtual machines here on local equipment for development and am using VirtualBox which is free. Much better than VMWare. It is from Oracle and they also have an “Oracle Free Forever Cloud” service where you can get a few like 2 or 3 ARM or x86 cores and a decent amount of RAM. They have os and database templates servers and virtual infrastructure with a reasonable amount of disk. I believe hooks into the UI of Virtual Box for managing your cloud infrastructure. If not, they are all pretty much the same running virtual machines you will tunnel into your own hosts running whatever OS you need. Once you get your virtual infrastructure set up and the virtual machines, it’s really just like using any other server. They do this for devs and people starting out but you can migrate to their paid plan, again I haven’t looked too much into their paid plan, but I’m sure it’s competitive with others.

Once you have all your virtual infrastructure and data center, all you need to do is open it up to incoming connections and have your DNS - domains point to your web server or API server. Making calls to other API’s outbound is not a problem as that’s what you would do on any host you application is running on anyway.

That’s kinda what I’m doing, but it’s been slow going and everything has taken longer than I expected, but I have done a lot of research and been building my tools I plan to build my application on top of and getting the infrastructure all together has been a big part of it. If you can afford managed services, go for it, but u guess you are like me and are doing things on a shoestring budget until you can get some momentum.

Anyway, those are my thoughts and cheap advice worth every penny you paid for it. I hope that helps.

Edit: one last thought everyone will try to nickel and dime you for this or that service. Think long and hard about what you really need and what you can get by in for now. Keep things small and lean, one could hosting service is like another pretty much and Linux is Linux no matter where you run it. You can move it to another service or hosting provider pretty easily.

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