On 2021-02-02 3:17 p.m., Alberto Abrao wrote:

I have been postponing my website creation for around 20 years. Last one I did was in Geocities, and I am not even kidding. So I am absolutely clueless on what would be a good easy solution. The only reason why I bothered to reply is that you asked for cheap hosting, so...

For the longest time, I used http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

Priced like Doug Ford's beer, it works well for low traffic applications. For my use (email), well, everyone thought I was sending spam. Obviously. Being cPanel-based, it's not really hard to have a website there without much hassle, and there are quite a few platforms available.

This is one I'll keep in mind for my own future use, but this is more low-level than what I had in mind in this case...

I did spin something at one point, and it sat there with the default page until I moved it all out.

I assume this platform is like Wix, instead of something like WordPress, correct?

Yeah, more Wix-like. And maybe Wix is the best solution in this case... I just wanted to know if folks had experience with any of these, and any recommendations for/against.

Thanks, Gilbert

On February 2, 2021 2:17:37 p.m. CST, "Gilbert E. Detillieux" gedetil@cs.umanitoba.ca wrote:

My wife has a small web site that has been hosted on a free hosting
service called webs.com, which is going to discontinue their free
hosting option at the end of March.  She's looking for an alternative,
preferably free, hosting service, but would also consider cheap options.

This should be something user-friendly for a non-technical person to set
up and maintain.

Any recommendations?

Thanks,
Gilbert

Although it may be a bit more technically involved than what you're looking for, Github pages are free and don't have any of the security issues that most wordpress platforms will face. Once you've got your jekyll templates figured out, publishing updates is as simple as writing markdown and git push to update the site.

-- Wyatt Zacharias

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 7:07 PM Alberto Abrao alberto@abrao.net wrote:

On 2021-02-02 4:17 p.m., Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:

This is one I'll keep in mind for my own future use, but this is more low-level than what I had in mind in this case...

I used it for around 4 years, and had no issues other than the IP being tainted for running a mail server, unsurprisingly of course.

I did spin something at one point, and it sat there with the default page until I moved it all out.

I assume this platform is like Wix, instead of something like WordPress, correct?

Yeah, more Wix-like. And maybe Wix is the best solution in this case... I just wanted to know if folks had experience with any of these, and any recommendations for/against.

I recommend WordPress.

You're going to go to the trouble of migration, might as well move to a platform where you have options: WordPress is *everywhere*. You can go small, big, self-host, wordpress.org, you name it.

There is the trouble of going through the migration, plus the learning curve. But it is unlikely you will have to worry about that again in the foreseeable future: not only most competing website platforms will make it easier for you to migrate *from* WordPress should there ever be a reason to do so, all hosting companies will accommodate WordPress, no matter your budget... even NoSupportLinuxHosting provides tools for quickly spinning up a WordPress site.

Its interface is not threatening, addons galore, tutorials everywhere. You can make what you want out of it. And that's the opinion of a few family members' whose websites I moved from Blogger to WordPress, not mine. None of them are tech-oriented *at all*, and all of them are having a blast.

-- Alberto Abrao 204-202-1778 (Landline) 204-558-6886 (Mobile)alberto@abrao.net

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