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TL;DR: Netlify is incredible for hosting static websites. The code for this entire site is available here. I publish at-will using their CLI via netlify deploy --prod. It's simple and awesome.

Introduction

This website may not look like much, but that's intentional. It is simple both in style, colors, and layout. It is blazing fast. It looks the same on any device, mobile or otherwise. It uses the simple web technologies you already know. You can use any static site generator such as Hugo or Gatsby. And I don't pay for any of it to work! I do pay for the domain lyte.dev, though, but you can get certain domains for completely free.

And you can easily build on top of a system like this, extending it to do anything you could ever possibly want! Need a Content Management System (CMS)? Done. Need to deploy a complicated Single-Page Application (SPA)? Easy.

I'll show you how I put this together using tools already on your computer and how you can extend my system to use whatever tools you prefer on top of my basic ones.

Let's get started!

How This Site Works

  • Obtain a domain and
  • Publish the site at will using Netlify (their CLI is great!)