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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 02:47

what's a good web host that you can FTP into to serve up some personal website files? i'm not sure if there are any free options but low-cost would be great! ty in advance :)

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 02:51

looking at InfinityFree, which looks like it's free and supported by ads on the main site and control panel (not on users' websites)? https://www.infinityfree.com/

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 03:23

correction: FTP or like, just drop your files into a rectangle and go

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Written by Jason Li on 2025-01-22 at 03:21

@kayserifserif if u don’t need PHP there’s always neocities. My sites all sit on greenhost which isn’t cheap but isn’t pricey either https://greenhost.net/

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Written by henry ✷ on 2025-01-22 at 03:24

@kayserifserif oh netlify has a drop and deploy!

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Written by henry ✷ on 2025-01-22 at 03:24

@kayserifserif https://app.netlify.com/drop

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 03:24

@henry love to hear it ty 😌

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Written by cthos 🐱 on 2025-01-22 at 04:38

@kayserifserif Neocities has such a drag-n-drop: https://neocities.org

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Written by cthos 🐱 on 2025-01-22 at 04:39

@kayserifserif #11ty 's dev site also has a nice list of options: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/deployment/#classic-web-hosts

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 04:49

@cthos ah should've known they would have a good list! thanks these are helpful :)

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Written by Phil Giammattei on 2025-01-22 at 03:23

@kayserifserif Netlify lets you upload a folder for free, not sure if they let you do ftp explicitly but it works really well

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 03:24

@phil ooh nice! yes i just realised and clarified that file drop is also an excellent option

thanks! :)

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Written by Louis-André Labadie on 2025-01-22 at 03:41

@kayserifserif Cloudfront Pages can host from a simple file drop for free mo problem, and NearlyFreeSpeech is a more complete (and actual FTP) low-cost option.

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 03:45

@lalabadie just to clarify - is that cloudflare pages? (I searched cloudfront pages but it was suggesting the other cloudf____ product haha)

thanks for the suggestions! i'm hesitant to recommend NFS as i had an aborted attempt with it once due to it being more technical than other platforms. but i do like the general ethos of it

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Written by Louis-André Labadie on 2025-01-22 at 23:43

@kayserifserif @lalabadie Oh, yes correct! Cloudflare Pages. It has this nice "drop your files here to get a new deployment" functionality.

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Written by Ivan Reese on 2025-01-22 at 04:21

@kayserifserif I use Amazon S3, and Transmit for FTP'ing files up to it. I have many gigabytes on there and it's covered by the free tier. I use cloudfront as a CDN in front of all that and pay 7¢/month in usage fees.

It's a bit confusing and complex to get started, but it's worked well for me for about a decade now, and I expect it to continue working the same way at the same price for a decade yet.

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Written by Nick Simson on 2025-01-22 at 04:27

@kayserifserif There’s also https://yay.boo/

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Written by katherine on 2025-01-22 at 04:28

@nsmsn oh yes!! love this, thanks!

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Written by Amadeus Maximilian on 2025-01-22 at 21:41

@kayserifserif maybe someone suggested it already, but Netlify has a decent free plan with easy drag and drop deploys. 😊

If you’re looking for something starting at 5€/Month with tons of room to grow, great support and hosted in Germany, I can wholeheartedly recommend https://uberspace.de.

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Written by ragman on 2025-01-23 at 04:10

@kayserifserif

Maybe too technically complicated, but Github Pages is free, and lets you point a custom domain at it:

https://pages.github.com/

But you have to use GIt to update your website so def more of a learning curve than FTP/drag-n-drop.

EDIT: That netlify drop thing looks really cool and def easier to use!

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Written by Tony Mottaz on 2025-01-23 at 12:29

@kayserifserif I’ve been happy with https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

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Written by Itamar Turner-Trauring on 2025-01-23 at 20:13

@kayserifserif Netlify lets you drag and drop a zip file of HTML etc, for free web hosting. So you'd need to zip things up every time you changed content.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ has actual FTP/SFTP and is cheap (haven't used it, merely know of its existence).

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