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

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Post by nickpsecurity »

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…

Here's a list of payment processors that was on HN earlier today:

https://startupstash.com/paypal-alternatives/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19771573

Just dig into each that might fit your situation looking for people's props and gripes about them. Edited to add the HN link since commenters mentioned other services.

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

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Post by krupan »

wybiral wrote: post #76

I haven't tried this yet but it reminds me of the spirit of GeoCities. For years now I've been hoping that one day the wheel of internet trends will roll back around and make personally-designed webpages a thing again instead of this bland "social media" landscape.

Check out neocities.org

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

If you want to upgrade your account check out: https://pro.1mb.site - For a one-time $100 payment you’ll get access to 1MB Pro forever and help support an indie project. Monthly cost will be $5 a month when I implement my new payment processor. Until then only lifetime purchases are possible.

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

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Post by jordache »

1mbsite wrote: post #125

If you want to upgrade your account check out: https://pro.1mb.site - For a one-time $100 payment you’ll get access to 1MB Pro forever and help support an indie project. Monthly cost will be $5 a month when I implement my new payment processor. Until then only lifetime purchases are possible.

lifetime for as long as the developer decides to maintain the service?

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

jordache wrote: post #126
1mbsite wrote: post #125

If you want to upgrade your account check out: https://pro.1mb.site - For a one-time $100 payment you’ll get access to 1MB Pro forever and help support an indie project. Monthly cost will be $5 a month when I implement my new payment processor. Until then only lifetime purchases are possible.

lifetime for as long as the developer decides to maintain the service?

The combination of revenue between lifetime and monthly subscriptions actually far outweigh hosting costs after I hit an easily obtainable customer number. Granted I’ll need to scale my server in time this is actually a sustainable business / I understand being skeptical of “forever”. If you were paying $5 a month it would be $60 a year, in under 2 years you’re already making your money back

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

revvx wrote: post #73
1mbsite wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! :) Pro members get 1GB of storage and some other features: https://pro.1mb.site (coming soon)

Nice to hear! Sounds like you have a great product AND a plan :)

Pro launched! :)

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

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Post by pryce »

hopscotch wrote: post #118
aurora72 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry I have no time for closed-source things.

It's a static file host with a nosql database and a text editor. There's a very clear migration path if you don't want to use their service.

and LetsEncrypt out of the box, which is gravy

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

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Post by p1necone »

1mbsite wrote: post #28
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…

Thank you for your kind words! In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB as long as you don’t delete your account and follow everything outlined on https://policy.1mb.site . Also pride ourselves in being more secure than your average free website host

How are you guaranteeing that sites on 1MB will live forever?
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