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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by Dylan16807 »

drak0n1c wrote: post #38
joshmn wrote: post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

That’s a good point - the attitude of “how is this any better than X, just use X” is one of the reasons why the web is so centralized.

But the attitude of "can you compare it with X?" is fine, and is what most of those comments are actually doing.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by jszymborski »

badsectoracula wrote: post #46
jszymborski wrote: post #26

Things I love about this: I would have given my left ear to have a similar service growing up. There were a billion "free hosting" sites that let you throw PHP scripts up on them, and "free mysql" hosts that let you have a couple of free tables of X rows, which give a 12yo an incredible head start when it came to web-dev. The downside is that those sites were trying to push scuzzy gambling sites or were soft targets…

I think neocities.org is closer to what you describe in your first paragraph (and is also ad free and clean).

Can you run e.g. PHP scripts on Neocities? I know this is why I quickly outgrew Angelfire and kin as a kid....

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

badsectoracula wrote: post #48

Why is it called 1MB? Is it a reference to the maximum storage you get? It'd be interesting for size optimized sites. Also are the sites supposed to look that big? https://i.imgur.com/QIRNATC.jpg (sorry for shitty photo quality, my phone is ancient... i took a photo instead of a screenshot to show how big it looks physically)

It’s called 1MB because free members get 1 megabyte of storage. You build your site from scratch or use a template. That’s just how I chose to make my site look

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

naveen99 wrote: post #45

If you can make a chat app, I am not sure you need to say static, it’s static + optionally dynamic. Looks good.

I refer to it as static hosting because even when using a 1MB database you’re querying it with JavaScript. Also databases are a new addition to 1MB so I’m at this weird crossroads where I don’t know if it’s static hosting anymore. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

#56

Post by superkuh »

drak0n1c wrote: post #38
joshmn wrote: post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

That’s a good point - the attitude of “how is this any better than X, just use X” is one of the reasons why the web is so centralized.

The reason why the web is centralized is that people use other people's computers to host instead of their own. Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well.

If this 1MB free hosting ever became popular enough it'd be just as bad as all the other centralized sites.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

#57

Post by girst »

This looks really neat! Seems perfect for those set-and-forget, single purpose type websites. Maybe I'll move https://xkcd.wtf over to you!

The only question is: how long will you be able to run this? There have been so many free webhosts that shut down over night, my confidence in any hosting project is limited

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by 1mbsite »

girst wrote: post #57

This looks really neat! Seems perfect for those set-and-forget, single purpose type websites. Maybe I'll move https://xkcd.wtf over to you! The only question is: how long will you be able to run this? There have been so many free webhosts that shut down over night, my confidence in any hosting project is limited

I’ve been running 1MB for over half a year and it’s my passion project. I’m constantly improving and adding new features to it. 1MB makes money from Pro upgrades it’s just temporarily unavailable. I want to run this project for years to come. https://pro.1mb.site

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

#59

Post by reificator »

superkuh wrote: post #56
drak0n1c wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a good point - the attitude of “how is this any better than X, just use X” is one of the reasons why the web is so centralized.

The reason why the web is centralized is that people use other people's computers to host instead of their own. Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well. If this 1MB free hosting ever became popular enough it'd be just as bad as all the other centralized sites.

> Everyone has a multi-megabit home connection now.

Uh... Down maybe. Up... We're not quite there yet. Rural America (sometimes just a few miles outside a major city) can have <5meg down and under 0.5meg up. During non-peak hours that is.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Post by girst »

1mbsite wrote: post #58
girst wrote: post #57

This looks really neat! Seems perfect for those set-and-forget, single purpose type websites. Maybe I'll move https://xkcd.wtf over to you! The only question is: how long will you be able to run this? There have been so many free webhosts that shut down over night, my confidence in any hosting project is limited

I’ve been running 1MB for over half a year and it’s my passion project. I’m constantly improving and adding new features to it. 1MB makes money from Pro upgrades it’s just temporarily unavailable. I want to run this project for years to come. https://pro.1mb.site

half a year isn't /that/ long.

I do wish for you to succeed, so I'll keep my fingers crossed! ;-)

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