You're Overcomplicating How You Host Websites

I still find it insane the way some people host websites. Paying $5-20 a month, spinning up VPS instances, managing NGINX configs, SSHing in to restart services. For a portfolio? A blog? You're wasting money.

You can host for free. Most people just don't bother looking.

GitHub Pages is Right There

GitHub Pages hosts your static site for free straight from your repo. Push to main, it's live. Custom domain and SSL just work. 100GB bandwidth a month, you're not hitting that on a personal project.

Public repos work on the free plan. Private repos need GitHub Pro.

Cloudflare for Everything Else

Need more than static? Cloudflare Pages handles fullstack for free. Serverless functions, API routes, middleware, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited sites, 500 builds a month. All free.

Need to host an API? Cloudflare Workers runs your code at the edge globally. Zero server management, cold starts are basically nonexistent, and the free tier is more than enough for most projects.

When You Actually Need More

Persistent servers, long-running processes, self-hosted databases. That's when you need to pay. But most people reaching for a VPS don't need any of that, they just don't know what's available for free.

Stop paying for things you don't need.