On 03/09/2019 11:07, Martin Brown wrote:
On 03/09/2019 09:30, Pancho wrote:
On 03/09/2019 08:50, Martin Brown wrote:

You would need a domain name (approx £7 every couple of years for a
.co.uk) and some hosting (about £40/year maybe less if it is low
traffic and you don't require anything fancy by way of support or
scripts).


I think Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services have a free tier
offering free micro servers.

They may well do but most such offerings are of the moron user drag and
drop interface type with rigid site templates. He wants a server that
will let him upload old school bare bones HTML (some free sites may).

I don't think that is correct. I think they provide a basic virtual
machine. You can run what you like on it, A webserver such as Nginx,
Apache, etc, or Wordpress.

I'm not 100% on the limitations as I've only actually used a Google
Cloud paid for service, which was brilliant, but as I understand it the
free services work in the same way.

Here is a guy discussing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJdypOqlL4