Hosting and Domain name

Hosting and Domain name

Hosting

Once you are done with your personal website how do you host it and show it to the world?

There are a few options for hosting:

• Vercel
• GCP
• AWS

We would recommend Vercel as it has a very generous free tier (I have 4+ website hosted and I am only using 10% of my limit) and it does not require and payment or credit card info to setup. It also works very well with NextJS.

All you need to do is go to Vercel, create an account, connect it to GitHub and walk through their tutorial step by step and at the end you will have a live website you can send to all of your friends.

Domain Name

But the default website will have a domain name that looks something like <Project Name>.vercel.app.

If you already have a custom domain name you can add it to your Vercel website easily.

If you don’t have a domain there are many options for purchasing one:

• Porkbun
• GoDaddy
• Namecheap

Costs are usually $10-$15 a YEAR, yes a year they are not very expensive.

You are also not limited to a .com domain, you can get a:

• .com
• .dev
• .tech
• .expert
• .boats
• .today
• .移动
• And many many more

Now you have everything you need to go ahead and create your own personal website!