On Wed, 12 May 2021 08:31:24 +0200 john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote:
> Debians, > > I need to have a small web site online but I don't have a commercial > link nor a server at home that can be publickly available. > > I'm planning to test/build the web site locally then have it published > where it is publickly available. > > I'm thinking of using Gitlab to host my web site Do you have a particular reason? > do you have a better > solution when you can't host your web site yourself? Not just 'can't', but usually 'shouldn't'. A modern web server is one of the most complex pieces of code in current use. New vulnerabilities in all of them are found almost daily, and not by the good guys. You need a fair knowledge of web server security to risk hosting it on your own server. Even companies like Microsoft have had websites hacked. Static pages are generally pretty safe, but I wouldn't even host them myself. > > Any feedback is appriciated. > Much depends on what you want the site to achieve. If you have a few static pages, any web host will do. If you need (or foresee a need for) an SQL database, then you need to look at what the various web hosts will offer for what price. You can go all the way up to a (virtual) hosted server, though your post suggests you need something small and simple. Do you need email addresses linked to the website? Pretty much all web hosting packages offer a few addresses and a certain amount of space. Do you need server-side scripting, such as PHP? Most hosting packages offer that. Do you need some kind of web authoring package? Some hosts throw a simple one in free, some charge extra. Do you need Wordpress? An e-commerce site? There are lots of bells and whistles that are available, but a basic display website with hand-written HTML doesn't really need any of them. Probably any of the large web hosts will do what you need for the best price. Note that the headline prices displayed are likely to be for six months or a year, with a higher price after that. A couple of big names are GoDaddy and TSOhost and there are many websites offering '10 best...' reviews, though they get out of date quickly. -- Joe
