Hello! Our site is tiny (597 KB) and almost purely static (it's a calendar microsite with a countdown timer & a few [Flourish.studio](https://Flourish.studio) chart embeds). Our current setup (SoftLayer + Cloudflare CDN) is all right, but **we hit 98.57% uptime last week**\--it's much better now, but we're exploring alternatives.
Any recommendations?
I've never managed a server and we're hoping to make this easy: our site builder will export our site's unminified HTML, CSS, and JS. And then we need to send that to a hosting provider. We update the site once a month, at most.
We could go ultra-cheap, but we're willing to pay for "peace of mind" and "user-friendly" here. Our budget is **\~$15/month maximum**. If we can add more than one site for a discount, that'd be ideal (we've got two more micro-sites @ 98% uptime).
# Who we're looking at:
* Vultr -- a cheaper alternative to Digital Ocean & everyone's said nice things
* Linode -- same as above
* Veerotech, Nixi, and the other sidebar hosts seem great (and much cheaper w/ unlimited sites!)
Is there any benefit for using Vultr/Linode here, vs the sidebar ones? We like the idea of Litespeed caching, but does this do anything for static websites? I only like it because of the automatic image compression (\~40% of our site's size is one JPEG).
# What features we'd like:
* SSL included and easy to set up
* Reliability and you trust the host will fix issues timely (w/ helpful enough support)
* Speed insofar as concurrent users & automatically optimizes the basics (minifying, caching, etc.)
* Some scalability (we'll be featured in a regional magazine & a regional news program next month)
* US-based servers in the eastern US
* Site backup
* No "gotcha pricing", if possible