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Hosting Wordpress on Linode (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by smoknjoe44@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I am new to self hosting so please bear with me:

I just found out my wife is paying Deluxe hosting (https://www.deluxehosting.com/) $100 a month for a website. There is nothing spectacular about the site and there are grammatical errors that someone should have caught. I feel like the cost of the site is a bit ridiculous and want to run a thought by you all before I try to implement it:

My thought was to host a Wordpress site on one of Linodes shared CPU plans. I was looking at the $5 per month plus $2 backup plan. As long as my wife owns the domain name of her site, this should work, right? Is there something better you can think of? Are there additional costs to this set up that I am missing?

Thanks!

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[–] ianjs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You can host a static site on Github for free.

It sounds like WordPress is way overkill for a few pages that just describe the business.

There are tools around that will crawl a site and convert it to static files you can just upload.