In order to have a personal website, you need web site hosting. I don't feel like dedicating my Macbook (which is away getting its trackpad fixed) to hosting my website so I need to chose one.
I looked at answers on Quora to a couple of hosting questions.
I don't need a lot of complexity or bandwidth. Right now I am looking at the free Amazon account, Dreamhost, or maybe Namecheap. I am leaning towards Namecheap because I have my domain names registered there. I think the plan is Namecheap to start, and then set up a free Amazon instance to practice setting up servers. I shall pull out the ye olde credit card tomorrow and get something running.
Shot post but I aerated close to 20 lawns today so I think I shall call it a night.
I don’t know if it’s the cheapest option out there, but I have Site5 do my hosting. They’re terrific and have great customer support. AWS is fun if you want to manage more aspects of administrating the site. It can get kinda expensive though: running a micro instance 24×7 is about $14 / month.