Hosting an OS website

[Skyz]

So, I'm looking to buy a domain and host for my OS project.

What's a good webhost?

[BenLunt]

So, I'm looking to buy a domain and host for my OS project.

What's a good webhost?

There are benefits to having your own page for sure. I use IPage, and they are currently offering a $1.99 per month promotion, with $7.99 month after the promotion ends. They handle the domain stuff too.

However, a lot of people use Github as well. I haven't dug too deep into it, I believe you can make a decent little page with it. Another option is SourceForge.

The advantage of your having your own space, so to speak, is you don't worry about advertising or pop-ups that you can't control. The disadvantage is the fee, which is quite minimal if you really think about it.

Others will have (probably better) opinions than I. With the pay side, don't commit until you are sure you actually want to go that route.

Ben
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[vvaltchev]

So, I'm looking to buy a domain and host for my OS project.

What's a good webhost?

I'd say that it's usually good enough to start with a free solution like Github Pages: https://pages.github.com/ and have an excellent README.md in your GitHub repo. People will more likely find your project using Github, than finding your website with Google.

Of course, if you need anything more than simple static web pages, you'd need to pay for webhosting. There are so many services out there, that I'm really not sure which one recommend. Just one advice if you really wanna go in that direction: keep in mind that many web hosting services offer an exceptionally good price for the 1st year, and then go back to the "regular price" (2x) for the following years.

[nexos]

Try out Heliohost. They are free, and offer a powerful hosting service. If you don't want to be a subdomain, you have to buy your own domain still.