Cheap Hosting

When the world wide web just started, there were free hosting sites (with an insane amount of adds) where people could host their blog, let people listen to their music or show their holliday pictures.

Due to the Facebooks, Twitters and Instagrams of this world, this tradition is long gone. However! It is still possible to host sites for free outside of Facebook and other social media, and even add some interactivity using Javascript and a form of read & write storage. It is also just plain FUN to tinker around with these new possibilities.

The parts we are going to set up:

• Get static hosting
• Get read & write storage
• Learn about APIs
• Put it all together
• Connect with JS
• Invite others to the site!

Selecting the Client side hosting

This is the easy part! Free static HTML hosting is available with no catches!

• Surge [Super Easy]
• Github Pages [Also easy]
• Heroku [Slightly harder]
• Azure Websites [Also not that hard]
• Aerobatic [I don't know it yet]
• Figroll [Also don't know this one yet]

Sources: stackoverflow, google, medium

Here I am going to explain how to use Surge. Do note that this page is hosted on Github Pages, as I wanted to try both. Surge is a tool built using NodeJS, which is basically Javascript for servers and desktops!

1. Create a new folder on your computer, with a index.html page containing:
   <h1>Hello from Surge!</h1>
2. Now let's install NodeJS: download and install it from nodejs.org. Go ahead, I'll be waiting.
3. Next: install surge using npm from the command line: npm install --global surge
4. Then we publish the page using: surge (yes, that's it - well, do answer the questions!)
   For me it looked like this:

   C:\Users\Johannes\Projects\static>surge
   
       Welcome to Surge! (surge.sh)
       Please login or create an account by entering your email and password:
   
                 email: my.email@gmail.com
              password:
          project path: C:\Users\Johannes\Projects\static\
                  size: 2 files, 180 bytes
                domain: bent-town.surge.sh
                upload: [====================] 100%, eta: 0.0s
      propagate on CDN: [====================] 100%
                  plan: Free
                 users: my.email@gmail.com
            IP Address: 127.0.0.1
   
   	Success! Project is published and running at bent-town.surge.sh

That's it: go visit your site at -something-.surge.sh and look at your awesome page!

The site I am using for this demo is available on Github here. To view the site at specifically this stage, can be done by browsing to "Release 1".

First - some theory!

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Getting the API up and running

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Interacting with the API

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Getting a backing storage

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Putting it all together

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TL;DR - short summary

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Contact Me

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