All the "production quality" issues are non-issues. The goal here is a website to support hobby projects. Trying to get the yearly costs down to support the hobby project is the #1 priority here.
The best way I've been linked to so far is hosting a site on GitHub and using a mark down generator such as Jekyll. Then you just need the DNS entries https://github.com/aeoth/Wp7JekyllTemplates#readme -David Burela On 2 April 2012 16:12, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com> wrote: > Godaddy has .com registration for about US$6/year, and free DNS**** > > ** ** > > Agreed with David that this is probably a fraction of the cost.**** > > ** ** > > Cheers**** > > Ken**** > > ** ** > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *David Burela > *Sent:* Monday, 2 April 2012 1:42 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* The cost of putting small websites online**** > > ** ** > > Over the weekend I was considering "supporting websites". Websites that > support the promotion of your small applications (such as phone apps).**** > > ** ** > > Lets say I'm making phone applications, and I just want to throw a website > up to act as a landing page. Something I can direct new users to which > displays an About page, have an embedded video, etc.**** > > I tried doing some calculations for how much something like this would > cost, this is what I came up with**** > > ** ** > > *AppHarbor / DNSimple* (https://dnsimple.com/pricing & > https://appharbor.com/pricing)**** > > *Domain registration* - $16 / year**** > > *DNS mapping* - $34 / year**** > > *Website hosting* - $0**** > > *Website hosting with DNS mapping* - $120 / year**** > > *Total $170* / year / application.**** > > ** ** > > *Wordpress.com***** > > Domain registration - $5 / year (wordpress upgrade)**** > > Domain mapping - $12 / year (wordpress upgrade)**** > > Removal of adverts - $36 / year**** > > Custom design - $30**** > > *Total $83 / year / application***** > > ** ** > > Both options are probably more than I'll make on most of my small apps. > And gets expensive when promoting multiple apps.**** > > I could try and get more bang for my buck and extend the site so that it > can also host some supporting webservices that my application can use.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Are my calculations correct? **** > > Is there another way to go about this?**** > > How do you guys go about creating small landing pages like this? > ("Buying your own server" seems a very heavy handed way to go about it, > and I don't want to become a full time sys-admin looking after my own > server)**** > > ** ** > > -David Burela**** >
