Bitbucket supports basic website hosting, too: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Publishing+a+Website+on+bitbucket
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:20 PM, David Burela <david.bur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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**** >> > >
