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Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Post by fellowniusmonk »

djbeadle wrote: post #21
qubyte wrote: post #6

The simplest way I can think of is Netlify. You can drag and drop a folder to deploy it. You'll get a sort of random looking domain and HTTPS. From there you can configure your own domain and deploy from GitHub etc. if you choose, but it's not required.

I have never gotten in to the nitty-gritty of what Netlify can do but the free tier is my go-to tool for posting fun little side projects. Buy a domain, create a new site linked to a Github repo, and write HTML and push! (Not a paid shill, just a happy user) But to the question asker's original point > what's the easiest way to sync a TXT file onto the web? For my personal website I use a custom static site generator…

And it accepts forms submissions too. I wanted to get a bespoke static landing page up for https://www.middleclasspaas.com/ that accepted form submissions and it took minutes on netlify, I was super impressed.

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Post by ollerac »

returningfory2 wrote: post #26
foxbarrington wrote: post #24

What were the steps 10 years ago that weren’t complex? I probably would have reached for Heroku back then. Or possibly my VPS on Dreamhost where I could FTP something into a folder served by Apache. Both of these are still an option. Today, I reach for Netlify which I think is easier—-just drag and drop a folder if git is too much.

> What were the steps 10 years ago that weren’t complex? I would really like to hear the answer to that! And why the 10-years-ago thing can't be done today.

I didn't say it was harder today, I asked: "why isn't it easier today?"

I would think with improvements in tech, things would actually become simpler.

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Post by ollerac »

dom96 wrote: post #23

> It got my wondering: why isn't it easier today to put something on the internet than it was 10 years ago? What did the "easy" way look like 10 years ago? I don't recall any method that wouldn't require at least some manual steps.

The easy way 10 years ago was FTP or rsync. It seems like that's still the easy way.

I'm wondering why nothing simpler/more automatic has popped up.

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Post by fragmede »

mgarciaisaia wrote: post #15
milalax wrote: post #9

just connect your computer to the internet without firewall and no patches applied. will be online almost immediately ;-)

Will also be offline in about the same timeframe, too (-:

Knocking it offline means it can't be part of the attackers botnet, so once it's a part of someone's botnet, they have a vested interest in keeping it online, strangely enough.

Re: Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

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Post by fragmede »

A text file is different than somethingin the title, but excluding every platform is what's got your hands tied behind your back as far as seeing progress. Normal people don't want a text file online, they want their friends to know about their pictures and videos, and have them comment on them. It's trivial to get something online these days. I open the user friendly app on my smartphone and press the + button, and my photo/video content is online, with no manual replicating it across servers or even knowing what storage tiers even are. Medium.com if you want to upload long form text vs Facebook or Instagram, but without a more rigorously defined notion (notion.so is another one for text) of what your idea of a platform is, there isn't one - Digital Ocean is certainly a platform, but uploading a text file to a VPS there isn't the same as a uploading to pastebin.com or Instagram.
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