You can definitely go with a service and have someone else manage everything for you. I generally choose not to.

Amazon Lightsail will give you a pretty powerful virtual Linux server with one equivalent dedicated CPU for $3.50 per month, with a better net connection than you are going to get elsewhere (entertainingly, in net 44). It was fine for all sorts of web services, and I had to go up to the $20 a month one to run a compile server because the Crystal compiler is globally optimized and had a whole gigabyte working set . Although not all of their free operating system images are up-to-date, you can update them yourself, and from Amazon local mirrors that are really fast.

Lightsail is meant to be fast to deploy, you don't have to learn all of the Amazon cloud APIs, just treat it as a Linux server.

Wasabi will provide you a gigabyte of online storage for $6 a month, which can be formatted as a static website.

I generally front everything with Cloudflare, which except for their embarrassing DNS outage the other day, has worked very well. Even at the Free level.

WordPress takes a little work to self-host, but not very much at all. I run Devuan or Debian and they generally take care of themselves. Just run the updates once in awhile, and back them up.

Thanks

Bruce

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 11:09 AM Leffke, Zachary via AMSAT-BB < [email protected]> wrote:

Hi All, I was wondering if folks had any recommendations for website services for hosting simple project pages. I do a lot of little side projects and occasionally folks ask for more details. I tend to keep things scattered across multiple media (lots on github), and collecting up everything in a 'useful' way isn't very efficient. I've considered making better use of github markdown, but I'm not sure thats the best way to go for all projects, particularly if I want to post a lot of images.

Some examples of the types of 'project' sites that I like and am looking to start include the following: https://www.w6pql.com/ http://www.w1ghz.org/ https://destevez.net/

Wordpress seems like it might be a good way to go. For the moment I'm just looking for something simple where I can 'publish' projects a bit better than just posting code or KiCAD designs on github. Eventually I might branch out to this new fangled social media stuff...but for the moment I just want to get the projects written up and posted.

Any and all recommendations would be welcome. I'm not opposed to pay sites (mainly to remove annoying ads from the page) as long as the interface is relatively simple and I like the look and feel of things.

Thanks in advance, -Zach, KJ4QLP

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Have you considered using github pages (since you already use github)?

Otherwise, i'd recommend against using any open or free blogging services because they can discontinue at any moment and then you're screwed. Google had one for a while and I created a bunch of content under a blog called libjoe, but they discontinued it! So, gar! You can get a micro-vm and host your own using lighty at a very low cost with AWS or Google Cloud.

Joseph Armbruster KJ4JIO

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 2:10 PM Leffke, Zachary via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:

Hi All, I was wondering if folks had any recommendations for website services for hosting simple project pages. I do a lot of little side projects and occasionally folks ask for more details. I tend to keep things scattered across multiple media (lots on github), and collecting up everything in a 'useful' way isn't very efficient. I've considered making better use of github markdown, but I'm not sure thats the best way to go for all projects, particularly if I want to post a lot of images.

Some examples of the types of 'project' sites that I like and am looking to start include the following: https://www.w6pql.com/ http://www.w1ghz.org/ https://destevez.net/

Wordpress seems like it might be a good way to go. For the moment I'm just looking for something simple where I can 'publish' projects a bit better than just posting code or KiCAD designs on github. Eventually I might branch out to this new fangled social media stuff...but for the moment I just want to get the projects written up and posted.

Any and all recommendations would be welcome. I'm not opposed to pay sites (mainly to remove annoying ads from the page) as long as the interface is relatively simple and I like the look and feel of things.

Thanks in advance, -Zach, KJ4QLP

--

Research Associate

Aerospace & Ocean Systems Lab

Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Work Phone: 540-231-4174

Cell Phone: 540-808-6305

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For those looking for LNA's. I assume you have to build it and chose the case. https://www.w6pql.com/LNAs%20(preamps)%20and%20MMICs.htm

HIs website if full of interesting stuff.---   Ciao baby, catch you on the flip side   73 de W3AB/GEO

http://www.w3ab.org

You can say "over", you can say "out", you just can't say "over and out".

I built a home brew Az/El antenna rotator for tracking the ISS with my Arrow 2M Yagi. It's a type of a mini Yeasu G-5500DC for light weight antennas.

That project is posted here: https://www.instructables.com/id/R2D2M2-ISS-Antenna-Tracker/

Instructables is good for publishing how-to projects.

73

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On Monday, July 20, 2020, 05:48:26 AM PDT, Robert MacHale via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:

Try https://www.instructables.com/

Also, I like the layout of http://medium.com

73

Robert MacHale . KE6BLR Ham Radio License . http://www.aprsat.com/predict . http://www.spaceCommunicator.club%C2%A0 . Supporting Boy Scout Merit Badges in Radio, Robotics, and Space Exploration

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On Sunday, July 19, 2020, 11:16:18 AM PDT, lu9cbl--- via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:

Do you check the blog style as blogspot??? do you have it for free with a gmail account.

73s

Mati LU9CBL (http://lu9cbl.blogspot.com/)

El 19/7/2020 a las 15:07, Leffke, Zachary via AMSAT-BB escribió:

Hi All, I was wondering if folks had any recommendations for website services for hosting simple project pages.  I do a lot of little side projects and occasionally folks ask for more details.  I tend to keep things scattered across multiple media (lots on github), and collecting up everything in a 'useful' way isn't very efficient.  I've considered making better use of github markdown, but I'm not sure thats the best way to go for all projects, particularly if I want to post a lot of images.

Some examples of the types of 'project' sites that I like and am looking to start include the following: https://www.w6pql.com/ http://www.w1ghz.org/ https://destevez.net/

Wordpress seems like it might be a good way to go.  For the moment I'm just looking for something simple where I can 'publish' projects a bit better than just posting code or KiCAD designs on github.  Eventually I might branch out to this new fangled social media stuff...but for the moment I just want to get the projects written up and posted.

Any and all recommendations would be welcome.  I'm not opposed to pay sites (mainly to remove annoying ads from the page) as long as the interface is relatively simple and I like the look and feel of things.

Thanks in advance, -Zach, KJ4QLP

--

Research Associate

Aerospace & Ocean Systems Lab

Ted & Karyn Hume Center for National Security & Technology

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Work Phone: 540-231-4174

Cell Phone: 540-808-6305

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