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

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Post by badsectoracula »

1mbsite wrote: post #53
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

So i tried it out: https://badsector.1mb.site/ (this is something i made a few years ago, i didn't make it now :-P)

The UI looks a bit too big on my monitor, but other than that it is nice for small stuff. I think it needs some way to upload multiple files from the browser via upload dialog and/or dragdrop (like imgur does, for example).

Also i found the editor autocompleting the closing tag very annoying! Also a bit annoying was the "smart" autoindentation (autoindent is fine of course, but trying to be smart clashes with how i'd indent things).

Anyway, good luck with it :-).

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

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.

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

This reads as condemning someone because of the actions of others. Like if I said to you: If I hire you, you'll just steal my source code like Levandowski did when he was at Google.

I don't think anyone would appreciate the second statement.. but you seem eager to condemn the motivations of this project without learning a single thing about the founder and his ethics or motivations.

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

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Post by rgbrenner »

winningcontinue wrote: post #72
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…

The problem is he's not marketing his product here on HN for his benefit. He's not writing up a post about his ideas and process of creating his product, just spamming the forum for exposure. The mods really have to crack down on this type of viral self serving marketing, or it'd just encourage more people to do the same. On top of that, it's a shittier product that other people have done and done better at the same…

He could have put "Show HN" in the title. But you seem unaware that this is one of the functions of this website. In fact, there's an entire section for it with a link in the header: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Show HN is suppose to be helpful criticism and feedback. Calling it a "shittier product" is entirely uncalled for. Not just for the language, but because it's entirely unconstructive. It helps no one.

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

rgbrenner wrote: post #94
winningcontinue wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is he's not marketing his product here on HN for his benefit. He's not writing up a post about his ideas and process of creating his product, just spamming the forum for exposure. The mods really have to crack down on this type of viral self serving marketing, or it'd just encourage more people to do the same. On top of that, it's a shittier product that other people have done and done better at the same…

He could have put "Show HN" in the title. But you seem unaware that this is one of the functions of this website. In fact, there's an entire section for it with a link in the header: https://news.ycombinator.com/show Show HN is suppose to be helpful criticism and feedback. Calling it a "shittier product" is entirely uncalled for. Not just for the language, but because it's entirely unconstructive. It helps no one.

I apologize for not using the proper title. I was unaware.

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

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Post by homero »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #50
IgorPartola wrote: post #2

Looks sweet. I might actually use this. A few questions: 1. Why a custom JS-based CLI tool for deployment? What does it do? Why not something like plain SSH? 2. What is the plan for this? Presumably you'll want to monetize the project? Will you ever add ads to my sites? Or will you offer premium features? 3. What's the reason for the NoSQL DB? 4. Your CLI tool only allows .png files as images. Is there a reason you d…

Dude, if I just want to put a page online, the last thing I want to have to deal with is SSH... Have browser, will content.

I saw an online editor

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

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Post by homero »

1mbsite wrote: post #35
stemuk wrote: post #32

The service itself is really cool and lines up nicely with the likes of Netlify and Github pages. I have two concerns though: 1) This doesn't seem to be connected to any major company, so how are you going to handle abuse of the service? With 'free hosting' offerings like this often comes a wave of abuse and malicious actors, so dealing with them is going to take significant resources. 2) How are you planning to mone…

1. For the past half year I’ve been moderating the site myself and also have automated filters I’ve coded. I’m recruiting some volunteer moderators soon! 2. 1MB was monetized in the past but got banned by our payment processor because they consider web hosting to be a risky business. It’s honestly my own fault I should’ve read the terms. 1MB will be monetized again soon when I implement a new payment processor: https…

I'd go with Chargebee and then merchant accounts can be hot swapped

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

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Post by mftrhu »

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. Hosting a simple static site is easy and works well.

Hardly. 2 megabytes/s download, around 120 kilobytes/s upload - my upload speed barely even reaches one megabit.

And it's from a dynamic IP, and connectivity drops off randomly once a month.

Could I host a static site on my own computer, with a little fiddling? Sure. Even a dynamic one. And it would be slow as molasses, and it would probably get denial'o'service-d if getting ten visitors at the same time.

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

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Post by homero »

1mbsite wrote: post #13
IgorPartola wrote: post #2

Looks sweet. I might actually use this. A few questions: 1. Why a custom JS-based CLI tool for deployment? What does it do? Why not something like plain SSH? 2. What is the plan for this? Presumably you'll want to monetize the project? Will you ever add ads to my sites? Or will you offer premium features? 3. What's the reason for the NoSQL DB? 4. Your CLI tool only allows .png files as images. Is there a reason you d…

1. This tool allows you to deploy all files in your directory to your site. If you were using the API directly you’d need to deploy each file individually. 2. It was monetized in the past but Gumroad banned my account because they consider web hosts to be a risky business. I’m re-implementing Pro soon (more info: https://pro.1mb.site ) 3. It just seemed like the most logical way to store and retrieve data with JavaSc…

Sftp would be incredible
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