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by pydry 1701 days ago
A tiny microsite for $120/year tho.
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This. $10 a month isn’t unheard of but when commodity VPS hosting is $5 a month (if not less) and stuff like WordPress.com is $8 a month and Netlify and GitHub Pages exist, I don’t know how broad this market is. Especially when you’re talking about the lock-in imposed by using this sort of thing.
A microsite with a cms that is neatly integrated with a produce that charges that much per user - sign me up!
I prefer to use Github Pages
As opposed to what? Hosting your own server for $120/yr in electricity, but with hardware costs on top?
What microsite costs $120/yr in electricity to run?
Mine, almost :)

https://danuker.go.ro/

Actually around $60, and I have more services on it, not just the site.

You know a site like this can be entirely static and hosted for free with github pages, gitlab pages, netlify, vercel, or any other free static site host.
Likely a digital ocean droplet, or other vps for $5-10 per month. Except neither of those Integrate with notion.
10$/month is 120$/year. Plus you have to do more work on top of that to actually build the site and integrate with a CMS.
Notion users will be in for a nasty surprise when they realize that DO is closer to a Raspberry Pi than a OEM PC.

All you get is a barebones OS without a GUI. You have to set up everything yourself: server (e.g. Apache), language (e.g. PHP), database and SSL. This is a non-starter for people that have never seen a command line interface before.

Ever heard of Wix?Square space? Netlify?
Two nice coffees per month, not so bad. Can fund it by canceling a rarely-used streaming service.