Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

http://191.252.220.165/

mine cost R$ 17.00 per month, which is circa $ 2.65

I still haven't bought a domain name tho, but it's just an annual fee

there is free hosting on https://neocities.org/ for static web pages <3

Oh that's not that expensive, I forgot I had to buy a domain name though lol, Im sure that can be quite pricey.

https://drfreebase.neocities.org/

Seconding Neocities , if you're just getting started or only need static pages.

If you want to go the VPS route though, you can run Amazon Lightsail for less than 5 bucks a month. For legal reasons, montrose.is is hosted with a much more expensive provider. I host a ton of our less sketcky stuff on Lightsail though, including chatbots and the like.

Here's mine: https://k-cottonears.neocities.org/

Lacking actual content though...

Not that I'd likely go for it, because I'm sure I won't need anything crazy, but what is the "much more expensive provider" you use for montrose.is?

I hope you add more soon, I love the aerospace aesthetic so much!

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Yes! I use Neocities.com for mine. I have a website for personal recommendations that I'd like to expand in the future, for now it's got a few music entries of albums, tracks, and playlists I love that may not be on others' radars: https://slybalto.neocities.org/

It's Orangewebsite. They actually have a variety of lower cost plans too but for technical/historical reasons we're on a higher tier (something we might remedy this year). The main reason we are with them is Icelandic data sovereignty and the fact they take crypto. It's a hedge against takedowns and de-banking. They've never given us anything but stellar service but it takes alot to get set up with them. For example, you need a passport to qualify to buy a .is . For that reason, I wouldn't recommend them unless you're trying to go full paranoid.

The real key to moving up is your CDN. Your provider almost doesn't matter once you can put Cloudflare in front of it. They also have a free plan. If you're serious about self-hosting in terms of running your own web server, I'd recommend getting a CDN sooner rather than later as modern hosting is all about CDN caching and DDOS protection. It does add alot of initial complication though. You'll need to learn about SSL certificates, reverse proxies, and DNS.

I'd def recommend starting with a complete solution like Neocities, then moving up to doing some active scripting things on a VPS, and then adding a CDN before upgrading the VPS. Most people will never need anything beyond Neocities or the small VPS though.

My website!! It's a little due for tuning up but I'm thinking about moving over from Neocities to Nekoweb hence why I haven't. Neocites is cool and is free but for $5 you can use a custom domain, and it's not even the only site I'm hosting under that membership through Neocities. My reason for thinking about moving is because I want my Guestbook to function a certain way that doesn't work through Neocities for reasons, but the setup and pricing through Nekoweb is comparable. I also get my domains through Namecheap because they are, as the name implies, cheap. I also find them pretty hassle free to work with.

I may get one in the future. I’m not sure yet

Mine is hosted on Github Pages. It's free if you are fine with the default github.io domain name, and it's rather easy to deploy a static website on it if you are already familiar with Github.

Ye, gonna update its design soon though https://thebrainhellscape.nekoweb.org/index.html

seconding the guys mentioning neocities here, it is awesome. only problem is non-supporters can't upload video or audio files . i personally use neocities for the pages and images, but host video and audio files on github

anyways here is mine. still pretty unfinished but i have an art gallery and rss feed finished https://youtherthyf-madehouse.neocities.org/art-gallery

I miss the old style of websites

I have one up on Neocities since it's free to host there. I'm not serious enough about it to pay for it. The only draw back is that you have to have .neocities.org on the URL

Warning my site does not work properly on mobile.

https://aapiarts.neocities.org/

I actually plan to learn how to set up a website. But I'm so not ready for the hassle.

This is a really cool idea, I sat on your webpage refreshing to see all the reccomendations... before I realized I could just go to the music page and see all of them. All the blinkies you're showing off are cool too!

Thanks for the breakdown, I'll definitely look into Neocities in that case and keep what you said in mind in case I want to move up.

I looked at namecheap, and you're right, they definitely earned that name lmao.

On an unrelated note, I found your channel and Niche Appreciation Club series through pouring over your website and I think it's great, I subscribed!

I got a small pi which I have a web server on. Might buy a domain someday. Depends on the future.

i have a neocities one, which is free to run (+ it gives me way more freedom, my last website i made when i was 12 was ran thanks to wix which is pretty dogshit in my opinion)

i also have a forums website, which i dont really count as independent from my neocities one but its just my personal opinion. its on forumotion, which is free

i still have fun making updates to both websites which really says how proud i am to have these

I have a website which pretty much mostly has flash stuff on it I made

http://jasonbunny.neocities.org

for some reason I also made mirrors of my page on other areas aswell including angelfire lol but yea

i guess just maybe try to make a style unique to ur site or something like dat like what I attempted to do with mines

https://jaypedia.xyz/ is my personal website. Coded entirely from scratch by me using plain HTML and CSS.

I paid about £2 for the domain name, and renewing it each year costs me about £8. The registrar service I use is Epik, I had heard it was good at the time when I bought the domain and it was only a year later I discovered that they have ties to the alt-right :(

I host my website using Netlify. Usually you have to pay for web hosting but Netlify has a very generous free tier which gives you something like 100GB of bandwidth per month. I think if you need to host more than 1 website or you need more bandwidth then you need to pay for one of their higher-tier services, but I'm happy to do that if I need to, I had very little trouble getting my website setup and updating is literally just a drag-and-drop process.

That's what I use, I like my website a lot and I'm very proud of the fact that I built it myself. I have had some basic experience with dynamic-site builders like WordPress and Squarespace, but if you just want to have a basic website just to write your own things on than you don't need a dynamic website like the ones those builders produce, a static site will be easier to maintain and much more efficient for the user as it will load on just about any device very quickly.

(For further reading on the above topic, check out this, this and then this)

I've also heard good things about Neocities, but I've never used it myself so I can't tell how good or bad it is.

Not right now. The only reason I would ever have a website of my own is for business. If I'm gonna shell out a few bucks every month just to have a presence online, then it had better yield a profit at some point.

No lmao, but if I did it'd be a Strombonin archive, housing every creation and info about Strombonin and their Rare/Epic/Young/Prismatic variants because Strombonin kicks ass.

Thanks so much for checking it out!! i can make it a bit more obvious that users can click on the left side navigation, maybe I could add an arrow that shows up on a first visit? I dunno, but I'll get some more feedback from some friends online/IRL!

Plan on having a site on neocities in the near future