Cheap webhost for small personal website?

[NaePasaran]

Any suggestions folks?

All the big players seem to use the same gimmicky sales tactic which is putting me off. "£1 a month wordpress hosting". Then you nip on and see it's £1 a month for 3 months, then it jumps to £10 a month, but only if you pay upfront for the whole year, otherwise it's £12 per month. But that price excludes VAT even though it's advertised as personal non business webhost account.

Anyway, recommendations greatly appreciated. Something under a tenner (mature student so cheaper the better for me), reliable and preferably UK/Europe based (although not sure if server location matters).

Will have next to no visitors, just something to link in my CV to demonstrate some work I have completed as a sort of portfolio for potential future employers.

[Mr Penguin]

Github Pages with a template is free

[droopsnoot]

I'm using Mythic Beasts, from a recommendation on here. £30 a year for hosting, email and probably some other stuff I haven't used. I used to use Ionos on the "£1 a month" special offer, but forgot to cancel and take out a new contract one year so it went to £12-odd, and I got fed up of having to remember to do that every year.

[768]

Netlify, it's free.

[jagnet]

NaePasaran said:

Any suggestions folks?

...wordpress hosting...

So by the sounds of it you're planning on using WordPress?

In which case neither of these are going to be suitable:

Mr Penguin said:

Github Pages with a template is free

768 said:

Netlify, it's free.

Likely your best option:

droopsnoot said:

I'm using Mythic Beasts, from a recommendation on here. £30 a year for hosting, email and probably some other stuff I haven't used.

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NaePasaran said:

Will have next to no visitors..

Next to no human visitors, yeah. Bot traffic on a WordPress site, looking for vulnerabilites, forms to spam, admin login pages... there'll be plenty.

[davek_964]

I also use Mythic Beasts - have a couple of personal websites on there and email hosting. Has worked well for me

[phil4]

While your site might look small, Wordpress adds a lot of stuff, both data size, DB storage an processing demands. There's a -lot- of overhead for a CV.

Why do I mention this? Just to temper your expectations of getting it provided for free.

[SwissJonese]

I've used this local (Devon) based company for my few personal websites for years. The best is I can contact them if I have issues and they resolve really quickly and offer helpful suggestions. They allow free SSL's too. Just check as price is without VAT.
Nutty About Hosting

[droopsnoot]

I missed the bit about Wordpress, the MB account I have will support a Wordpress installation.

If you don't mind using a subdomain on the Wordpress.com site, you can put one directly on their web site for free - so it would be yourusername.wordpress.com for example. I have one, I haven't really explored what can be done with it, but it's just a Wordpress content management system. I don't know if I can do anything more complicated without paying, I know I can't move my domain name to it for free.

[BlueMR2]

davek_964 said:

I also use Mythic Beasts - have a couple of personal websites on there and email hosting. Has worked well for me

We got you to switch in the end, it took some effort though .

[BossHogg]

I use this guy for my 2 forums, he's very reasonable.
https://mattwservices.co.uk/

[Semmelweiss]

Raspberry Pi 2 W is about the cheapest way to host your CV Website. If you are so inclined you can run pihole with unbound on it simultaneously.

[Griffith4ever]

hotspresto, £5 a month inc. I used them for my business for years - an ecommerce site (on a £12 a month package). I moved in the end as I needed to change the ecommerce back end to something prebuilt (moved to Ionos), but Hostpresto support is very reactive (good).

They have installers buult in to Cpanel for both Joomla and Wordpress. I'd go Joomla if it was me.

[HiAsAKite]

Infinityfree is free.. used them for years for 3 sites.

https://www.infinityfree.com/

Have migrated one of our sites to Blinkweb.. not free, butv reasonably priced, but run by a PHer here, and very good.

https://blinkweb.co.uk/

[Keypad]

If you have a gmail account, then Google Sites offers simple & free hosting.
No idea where the servers are.

[davek_964]

Keypad said:

If you have a gmail account, then Google Sites offers simple & free hosting.
No idea where the servers are.

I thought that had all been sold off to Squarespace?

[dundarach]

Buy a cheap Raspberry Pi and host your own free wordpress site, that's what I do, all in I bet around £30??

[NaePasaran]

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. Was contemplating a self-hosted site using a Pi or mini PC but didn't fancy having it on my home network. Although a cheap SIM only 5G card and router might be an option?

[lizardbrain]

vercel

you will need to learn how to use AI IDE but that's probably not a bad idea

[jagnet]

lizardbrain said:

vercel

For WordPress... challenging.