This forum thread scares me: https://forum.1mb.site/?t=1556326142930 GET requests never affecting state is backend web dev 101.
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Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
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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
> In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB I can assure you that the opposite is true. Tumblr deleted half their content. MySpace lost all their content. GeoCities lost everything. Facebook "accidentally" lost Zuckerberg's old posts and with all the money and software "engineers" in the world can't recover them. Startups and corporations that had the kind of money and technical experti…
> GeoCities lost everything.
Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
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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…
I don't need to know anything about the founder or his ethics. Once popularity brings in money only having one set of rules will always create a highly censored environment. Self-hosting bypasses this by allowing many sets of rules.
Everyone saying that 100KB/s upload isn't enough to host a static site that is under <1MB in size is either ignorant or intentionally disingenuous. I was hosting my static site from home on far less than that for a decade.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#164Three suggestions:
1. please dont have "forever" pricing. i would rather pay a higher fee monthly.
2. please have tiers according to size and bandwidth requirements
3. Instead of creating your own cli, etc. Could you integrate with Gatsbyjs ? In fact, your killer feature could be a wysiwyg editor for Gatsby
I would strongly prefer an open standard like Graphql over a custom nosql you have. You can implement it at your end using something like https://hasura.io/ or something.
this is killer if it happens. You are basically netlify+gatsbyjs+contentful rolled into one. I could never figure out why netlify and contentful dont support the features of the other.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 mol…
I did it on dynamic IP connections with far less upstream for more than a decade. Luckily I've had 5-10 megabit up for another decade on top of that and it's even easier now. But it's certainly possible and even easy on limited connections. We're not talking 56k here. Also, limiting bandwidth to some appropriate value is also not hard.
And so what if your websites goes offline for a few hours a handful of times a year? Or even a week. It doesn't matter. This isn't some profit driven job.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#166This is great and incredibly useful.
Quick note:
Google sites requires 2 nameservers and because of that I am not able to point the site to my domain.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB I can assure you that the opposite is true. Tumblr deleted half their content. MySpace lost all their content. GeoCities lost everything. Facebook "accidentally" lost Zuckerberg's old posts and with all the money and software "engineers" in the world can't recover them. Startups and corporations that had the kind of money and technical experti…
> GeoCities lost everything. Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.
Thanks for the clarification. For the purposes of my argument, the reason why the data no longer exists is irrelevant.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
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You should really consider having Pro not being a onetime fee, but rather a monthly subscription, or at the very least both options. A single one time $100 fee is unlikely to go well with most users, but many more would be ok with contributing $5 or so a month if it meant supporting a good service.
Pro is $5 a month or $100 for a lifetime plan. The monthly option isn’t available until I implement the new payment processor but please stay tuned I hear you :)
Hey I know monthly is more popular with investors but thanks for offering a one time fee, I consider that quite innovative for the web-hosting market :)
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
You should really consider having Pro not being a onetime fee, but rather a monthly subscription, or at the very least both options. A single one time $100 fee is unlikely to go well with most users, but many more would be ok with contributing $5 or so a month if it meant supporting a good service.
Pro is $5 a month or $100 for a lifetime plan. The monthly option isn’t available until I implement the new payment processor but please stay tuned I hear you :)
Worth telling people that a $5 a month is coming soon. Collect their email addresses.
Also the "no one can predict the future" is a bit scary so another thing is to promise you can get your data out as a static site for netlify, github etc. at any time.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#170I have been looking for something like this! My use case is a minimal CMS back-end and admin interface.
Basically adding some dynamic content to a otherwise static site that the user(s) can change themselves.
The 1mb site would be an admin interface for changing the content in the DB, the 1mb DB serving the content to the front-end hosted elsewhere.
I'll have to try this out. Very cool.