Hosting Our Company’s Website for Free

I have to admit, our website betterthings.digital is very small and we haven’t put in much love the last few months. Changing that is on our to-do list but unfortunately not at the very top. However, we’d like to share how we’re hosting and securing it for free. The website’s source code is stored on

Whenever we push a commit to a branch on GitHub it gets deployed as preview deployment on our Netlify account. This helps us take a look at the result before we merge it into the master branch. These preview deployments come in very handy to look for typos and preview it on various devices. Merging to master triggers a production deploy of the website and the changes are instantly available on

Our website is secured by Cloudflare. We’re using the free plan and also use their DNS service to configure the records for other things (e.g. routing mail to our G Suite email accounts).

There aren’t any analytics on the website and we’re planning to keep it that way. Keeping it as simple as possible does not only make our lives easier but also helps our visitors to be happy about a fast site and don’t worry about their privacy. In our opinion to many company websites include tracking and analytic scripts be default without actually having any process or goals connected to the collected data.

If you have any questions about how we did something or if you have any suggestions on how we could improve the site (content- or performance-wise) please contact us via one of the usual channels.