Which web host?

[Steve_M]

Carlisle Judo club, where I’m one of the coaches,  want a website. Given that I’m the only club official who has any IT knowledge (albeit from many, many years ago(, I seem to have volunteered to get the ball, rolling.

 

Requirement:

Easy to build (ie. No fancy coding) and modify

Static content 

Inexpensive..

 

I can probably do most of the build if it’s relatively simple (for a brief, and enjoyable part of my working life I used to build Lotus Notes applications). 

 

I’m looking at something along the lines of GoDaddy. 
 

Any suggestions (paying someone is not an option. I know lots of web developers and techy geeks - I’m avoiding them due to requirement 3 ). 

 

 

 

Edited February 25 by Steve_M

[Simon Davey]

I use a program called Mobirise, it's free. 

I build on my PC, then upload to 1&1. 

 

It's rare to be able to do this, as most website building is online. 

Our website 

[Fiddlesticks]

I pay £6 a month for a virtual private server from a company that can't even sort out the SSL on their own website. Runs an out of date version of Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, and a Postfix mail server (for my sins). Let's Encrypt handles the Certficates so that's all free and works to secure both web and email.

 

It confuses companies when they ask for my email address and I give them one with their company name in it. The logic being - if everyone gets their own I can tell who's been selling my details on to spam lists and kill that particular address.

 

Really should get the whole thing upgraded, but there's no option to do it in situ, so it's a case of building from scratch and migrating.

[S-Westerly]

I can read the words but the total is incomprehensible to me. Glad I don't have to learn that stuff now. Good luck to those who do!

[Steve_M]

9 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

I use a program called Mobirise, it's free. 

I build on my PC, then upload to 1&1. 

 

It's rare to be able to do this, as most website building is online. 

Our website 

Thank you. 
 

 

Nice website, by the way. A bit posher than we were looking for.

 

1&1 are now IONOS, they have good reviews.

[Simon Davey]

55 minutes ago, Steve_M said:

Thank you. 
 

 

Nice website, by the way. A bit posher than we were looking for.

 

1&1 are now IONOS, they have good reviews.

Thanks, it's just a matter of dragging blocks into place, adding pictures, and popping text in. They have templates that you can use if you want it simple. Ignore the temptation to buy the packages, ours is done with the free version. 

 

Yes Ionos, been with them for almost 30 years, when it was very basic. 

[billysugger]

Would they keep an ionos, just to make sure we get it right

[Stu]

On 25/02/2025 at 23:11, Fiddlesticks said:

I pay £6 a month for a virtual private server from a company that can't even sort out the SSL on their own website. Runs an out of date version of Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, and a Postfix mail server (for my sins). Let's Encrypt handles the Certficates so that's all free and works to secure both web and email.

 

It confuses companies when they ask for my email address and I give them one with their company name in it. The logic being - if everyone gets their own I can tell who's been selling my details on to spam lists and kill that particular address.

 

Really should get the whole thing upgraded, but there's no option to do it in situ, so it's a case of building from scratch and migrating.

 

Yes that did confuse me at first when I first saw your email address but soon realised what you was doing so refrained from selling your data.............

 

 

 

 

[Stu]

Pointless me recommending someone as I have been on a large VPS for the last 14 or so years maybe more and the company I use will be way out your budget! sometimes its way out of mine

 

The smaller companies that was decent have all been swallowed up by the larger companies 

[Joeman]

basic and free for static sites - https://sites.google.com/ 

 

[Tiggie]

Is geocities still a thing? 

 

 

[Fiddlesticks]

AWS?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/WebsiteHosting.html

[rennie]

I understand very little of this thread!

[Bender]

What's the company Fortnine keep pushing foursquare or something, you can use the auto AI to generate a website.

[Mawsley]

On 26/02/2025 at 06:39, S-Westerly said:

I can read the words but the total is incomprehensible to me. Glad I don't have to learn that stuff now. Good luck to those who do!

 

2 hours ago, rennie said:

I understand very little of this thread!

 

This video is a good basic explainer

 

 

[Steve_M]

On 26/02/2025 at 07:57, Simon Davey said:

Thanks, it's just a matter of dragging blocks into place, adding pictures, and popping text in. They have templates that you can use if you want it simple. Ignore the temptation to buy the packages, ours is done with the free version. 

 

Yes Ionos, been with them for almost 30 years, when it was very basic. 

I’ve created a very basic website Carlisle Judo using Mobirise (no apologies for the image of child abuse - that’s me throwing my son. He gets his own back now!).

 

I have yet to look at the Ionos hosting option due to other commitments. However, assuming I get around to it soon, and buy a suitable domain name, how do I move the site across?

[Simon Davey]

1 hour ago, Steve_M said:

I’ve created a very basic website Carlisle Judo using Mobirise (no apologies for the image of child abuse - that’s me throwing my son. He gets his own back now!).

 

I have yet to look at the Ionos hosting option due to other commitments. However, assuming I get around to it soon, and buy a suitable domain name, how do I move the site across?

 

Ummmmmmm, no idea. Never had to do that, I've been with Ionos for so long. 

Once you have an account, I'm pretty sure there are lots of options, and lots of "how to" pages. 

Edited March 15 by Simon Davey

[Steve_M]

2 hours ago, Simon Davey said:

 

Ummmmmmm, no idea. Never had to do that, I've been with Ionos for so long. 

Once you have an account, I'm pretty sure there are lots of options, and lots of "how to" pages. 

Errr. Bugger.

[Stu]

On 15/03/2025 at 09:31, Steve_M said:

I’ve created a very basic website Carlisle Judo using Mobirise (no apologies for the image of child abuse - that’s me throwing my son. He gets his own back now!).

 

I have yet to look at the Ionos hosting option due to other commitments. However, assuming I get around to it soon, and buy a suitable domain name, how do I move the site across?

 

 

You normally find with AI generated or "free" sites they hold your website to ransom and want money off you to release it!