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Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by j_s »

ArchReaper wrote: post #107
majewsky wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$1.20 a month is really expensive. I have a whole virtual server for €5 a month (and there are smaller ones) that hosts 10+ sites/apps. EDIT: I just realized that's a question I should ask: Does your price include the domain?

What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps

Not to discourage a response with a personal anecdote, but don't miss https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison and its HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245538.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by kadal »

A question:

I have nearly 0 experience with web-dev. I'd like to add some minimal user tracking to my static site on Github; just when & where the requests are coming from (geographically), which posts they're looking at and maybe a referrer.

I don't want to use Google Analytics (seems unfair given that I block it). Is there an easy way to do this?

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by j_s »

busterarm wrote: post #91
flangillion wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I note that your mailto: links don't include an email address. e.g. at the bottom of the page https://www.forthepeople.com/class-action-lawyers/clergy-sex... the mailto link (black envelope image) has the email address "?".

It's an email share link. It's for you to share with whoever. All of those icons are social sharing icons. ? is actually for the query parameters and that's a properly-formed URI.

To be clear (since it wasn't to me; best tag-team approach to trick me into clicking some lawyer's website ever!): ...

The user is expected to click the email icon, then fill in the to: address, with the body pre-filled with the current url.

Most email urls passing query string parameters fill in the address (which winds up in the to:) and subject instead.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by kadal »

kadal wrote: post #122

A question: I have nearly 0 experience with web-dev. I'd like to add some minimal user tracking to my static site on Github; just when & where the requests are coming from (geographically), which posts they're looking at and maybe a referrer. I don't want to use Google Analytics (seems unfair given that I block it). Is there an easy way to do this?

Of course, now I find this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674747

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by busterarm »

j_s wrote: post #123
busterarm wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's an email share link. It's for you to share with whoever. All of those icons are social sharing icons. ? is actually for the query parameters and that's a properly-formed URI.

To be clear (since it wasn't to me; best tag-team approach to trick me into clicking some lawyer's website ever!): ... The user is expected to click the email icon, then fill in the to: address, with the body pre-filled with the current url. Most email urls passing query string parameters fill in the address (which winds up in the to:) and subject instead.

Absolutely follow you. Business decision, wasn't up to me ;)

That said though, best damn lawyer's site on the web, amirite?

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by azdle »

kadal wrote: post #122

A question: I have nearly 0 experience with web-dev. I'd like to add some minimal user tracking to my static site on Github; just when & where the requests are coming from (geographically), which posts they're looking at and maybe a referrer. I don't want to use Google Analytics (seems unfair given that I block it). Is there an easy way to do this?

Honestly, I do use Google analytics on one of my sites. If figure, anyone who cares even a little bit about privacy will have it blocked. Using something more rare means that they might not be blocking it even if they would want to if they knew about it.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by kuschku »

dsr_ wrote: post #85
mmirate wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, that's why I recently started checking people's profiles before posting a dissenting reply, and not making the reply if they've enough karma to downvote me.

If you care deeply enough about fake internet points to go to that much trouble, IMHO, you're doing it wrong. Are you feeling picked-on because of what you're saying, or how you're saying it?

I, for example, speak english as second language, and frequently a comment of mine is read more aggressively than I meant it, so it ends up at -10 or worse, even when being factually correct.

So I’m reducing my activity on HN in general as far as possible, and only post as uncontroversial opinions as possible, because I fear that going against the established opinion would just get me downvoted again.

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by giancarlostoro »

tbrock wrote: post #54

Holy cow. Is this an improvement? Remember in 1999 when you could get a static website up in 3 minutes using ftp?

The trickery is in the use of the words "static site" which has become a buzzword (buzzphrase? buzzwords?)for sites generated using a "static site" generator or tool, in this case Hugo is used. The rest of the process is considered the "building" part of a "static site" even though to those of us making sites just a few years ago static site meant open up notepad and write some HTML to push somewhere, that or Freewebs to others (or webs as it is now).

Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours

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Post by RUG3Y »

tbrock wrote: post #54

Holy cow. Is this an improvement? Remember in 1999 when you could get a static website up in 3 minutes using ftp?

Using Hugo adds a lot of complexity. I'm using Surge.sh and raw html/css, I can have a site up in under 2 minutes. I think I spent less than an hour on my blog (it has a very simple layout).
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