The world is increasingly composed of computing devices that stay on 24 hours a day. Long gone are the days when only servers used to do this. Now most desktops have ~90% uptime while mobile devices are almost at 100%. Combine that with ever increasing, cheap bandwidth, I think the time is ripe more than ever for hosting your own simple, low traffic services including websites. The only obstacle here is that there still no simple setup wizard that can make them painless to host and take down, with a few clicks. A package that combines a simple, secured web server with a site builder.
Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need
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#42for all the posts on firefox bugs, on firefox 61 everything seems to be functioning properly btw
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, since it's distributed / decentralized you wouldn't depend on a particular company (or service). This way you wouldn't need to worry about it being shut down.
You would still depend on the constant availability of an origin for your data. IPFS is not magic in that regard: if whoever is your origin disappears, then your data is likely to disappear at some point, especially if it's not super popular. There is no free lunch: you either become your origin yourself, or you pay someone else to be.
Though : would that lunch be as expensive as $10 per month or would it be almost free like $0.1 per year ? I consider that to be pretty much free :)
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#44"Icons is an essiental part..." Also, proof readers.
And proofreaders, too. ;)
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#45I get that this is easy, but there are 2 main cons: 1. It is $4 a month (that's a lot for a really a simple static page) 2. Vendor lock-in. These sites come and go and might not be around in a couple of years. This is why I recommend Hugo hosted on netlify. Sure, it has a learning curve (but plenty of open source themes make it fairly easy). Hugo spits out plain HTML so there is no lock-in, and netlify hosts for free…
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#46I get that this is easy, but there are 2 main cons: 1. It is $4 a month (that's a lot for a really a simple static page) 2. Vendor lock-in. These sites come and go and might not be around in a couple of years. This is why I recommend Hugo hosted on netlify. Sure, it has a learning curve (but plenty of open source themes make it fairly easy). Hugo spits out plain HTML so there is no lock-in, and netlify hosts for free…
I don't think $4 a month is a lot to pay for a not-so-tech-savvy small business looking for an easy way to have an online presence, though of course there is only one way to make sure.
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#47Can’t watch the video on an iPhone, “The requested video is not allowed to be played in embedded players.”
Also, going directly to lonelypage.io doesn’t work.
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#48Pretty sick! I'll be using a pro plan for a new project. BTW, gradients not working in mobile.
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#49I don't want this to be intended as harsh criticism of your idea, but let me share my experience with website builders: - The market is extremely tough. Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace and Wix do. The reason being that these pages typically have small businesses as customers. The issue with these type of businesses is that they go away quickly. Most don't survive 6 months. So you need new customer…
> Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace...do
I would intuitively estimate that about 15% of educational youtube videos are sponsored by Squarespace.
Re: Show HN: LonelyPage – One page is all you need
#50I don't want this to be intended as harsh criticism of your idea, but let me share my experience with website builders: - The market is extremely tough. Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace and Wix do. The reason being that these pages typically have small businesses as customers. The issue with these type of businesses is that they go away quickly. Most don't survive 6 months. So you need new customer…
> Maybe you noticed how much advertisment squarespace...do I would intuitively estimate that about 15% of educational youtube videos are sponsored by Squarespace.
Cooking channels, too.