You can put hanging wires or a macrame hanger on a regular pot that comes with a saucer, so the wires or macrame support the saucer. Keep the saucer filled. This is the commonest method I've seen used.
You can wire a dish under a wire or plastic basket so the bottom of the basket is in the water in the dish.
You can take a container with no drain holes and drill holes above the bottom, as when making a semi-hydroponics container. Then figure out how to hang the container with wires or macrame. The bottom of the container would have a reservoir. The container does not need to be deep, especially if the medium is loose and has lots of air. I could easily envision doing this with LECA as a medium - again, as with semi-hydroponics.
For plants with spikes emerging down from the medium you will need to use a wire or plastic basket.
I have not done these hanging things with reservoirs myself, but I have seen them in other people's houses. I do grow in S/H. And I grow some Bulbophyllums in shallow trays with no drainage holes, in sphagnum mounded over LECA. If I attached hangers these would be just what I'm talking about.
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