Free Hosting Suggestions

[craftyhobbit]

Hi, I am a neocities user, but recently I've found that the social media-like follow function, profile commenting and recent activity page has started making me feel uncomfortable using the site. I would like to find a free host like neocities that allows me to create a website using old fashioned coding techiques that is free of the social media aspect. I'm not interested in followers, and getting comments for the things that I'm working on - I just want to create a small site to hold the stuff I'm working/researching, but I keep finding free hosts that rely on premade templates and AI content generation. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Comments

[thepasteldyke]

How intrusive do you find the cursors? I find the idea behind them kind of stressful, but since I haven't actually made an account yet I can't gauge how/how often people actually interact through them.

What kind of vibes? I don't use discord so I don't know anything about that kind of stuff. I've mainly been thinking of getting somewhere as a backup in case USA bans porn, but I could be mistaken in it being US based. Nekoweb was the one I was the most aware of outside neocities.

[pebbleinalake]

I think the cursors only show up on the explore page (at least, that's the only place I've ever seen them) and even then I don't often see other cursors. But also, there's a place in settings where you can just turn that feature off if you don't want it.

It's more of a general vibes thing; I don't like the feeling I personally get whenever I'm in their Discord and see the way they discuss the nekoweb site, as well as the weird amount of hate towards neocities. The discord is used basically as the nekoweb customer support line, but if you don't need to contact them for any reason than it should be easy enough to avoid.

I definitely recommend at least giving them a try to see how you like it since they have a free account tier. I personally don't see myself ever using it as my primary webhost, but I do still have a secondary website on nekoweb and it's been working fine for me.

[thepasteldyke]

I'm glad there's an option to shut it off. It honestly sounded so stressful to me.

That's a bit... odd. It did stick out to me how much neocities specifically is mentioned in the FAQ back when I first read it. It's not like neocities and nekoweb are the only two alternatives, so why mention just one, you know? not to mention it's not actually cheaper if you go cents-by-GB, the way is mentioned in the FAQ

I will probably check it out, see if I like it. After 20 years on the web, what's one more user account, lmao.

[craftyhobbit]

I'm confused about the cursor thing. I managed to stop my site showing up in the explore page, but is that all you need to do to stop people interacting with you? (I managed to pick up one follower before I managed to stop my site showing up in there - how do I get rid of them?) Can I delete the cursor image, elements.css and prettier.json files and not have it affect my site on there?

I've had a look at the other hosts suggested but none are really what I'm looking for. What I really want is something like how bravenet used to be before they made their free users pay for hosting. Paid hosting isn't an option for me because if we have a finianical issue, the paid website hosting hobby is the first thing to go and I lose all the work I've done.