Best way to make and host a website?

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
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  • Hugo

    The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

  • Stepping up from simple index.html experiments, check into static site generators such as Hugo. https://gohugo.io/. Edit a text file(s), it generates a website. And there are options to publish those on cheap, or even free, sites - ideal for a static site and especially while learning.

  • GrapesJS

    Free and Open source Web Builder Framework. Next generation tool for building templates without coding

  • I would look into website builders/CMS systems. One I ran into recently is GrapeJS: https://grapesjs.com/ seems like it allows easy website building. Here is a demo from their home page: https://grapesjs.com/demo.html

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Bludit

    Simple, Fast, Secure, Flat-File CMS

  • Check out https://www.bludit.com/

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

    Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

  • Then use nginxproxymanager as a reverse proxy: https://nginxproxymanager.com/

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