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Best tool for creating a basic business website (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm starting a NonProfit Fediverse powered business called BT Free. I was thinking of making my homepage built on Ghost, but due to some of it's choices, I'm looking for something else.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a self hosted, possibly fediverse powered, software for creating a simple clean efficient business website landing page that explains who we are, what we're doing, etc. I am NOT a designer so something with templates or can hold my hand would be wildly helpful.

I was thinking maybe a static site generator maybe?

Anyone have ANY thoughts or suggestions? Remember there are no such things as bad ideas or comments!

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.

A few things to think about:

Where do you plan to host and how much is the monthly budget?
How much traffic do you expect to get?
Will the content be static or updated often (i.e. landing page site vs. blog).
Will more than one person be updating the site?
How technical is the person/people updating the site? Are they OK with using terminal and command-lines, or GUI and point and click.
Will there be 'member-only' features, i.e. things that require users creating an account and logging in?
Will you need to offer a way for people to get in touch? Like, contact pages, email, etc.
Will there be a need for public to post and answer questions (i.e. a forum).
Will you need future support for things like newsletters, shopping carts, etc.

If one-person, technical, static, I'd go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.

If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.

You can self-host all these, but it's much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.

If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is excellently well thought out post and some GREAT questions! I'll have to go through this more. I'm definitely planning on Self Hosting via Hetzner, I expect it to be static. I don't honestly expect much traffic, but who the hell knows. :-D I don't think I'll need forums as I have the Fediverse! :-D

[–] asap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're doing static sites, then traffic shouldn't be a concern.

I host two sites that each get more than 2 million hits a month, and I run them from a $0.10 cent Scaleway server.

Cloudflare in front of the sites takes most of the load.

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're overpaying 😁

Cloudflare static web hosting, including TLS/SSL, DDOS protection, WAF, and AI scraper protection, are all free: https://softwareonbudget.com/blog/how-to-host-static-website-for-free-with-cloudflare-pages/

And if you connect it to github repo, it auto-updates on push to main.

No connection. Just a happy user and a fan.

[–] asap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are a lot of backend processes for those sites which need a server, so that wouldn't work, but thank you regardless.