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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
#182Love it, but one suggestion: I'd change the headline to "1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database". That database is the edge you have compared to Netlify and Github pages people are asking for :) The authentication part is a nice touch, too. Feels more like a community thing. Checked out the API and you even have easy to setup database permissions. I like it. - Questions: do you plan to offer paid pla…
I've taken the liberty of adding that database bit to the title above. (The submitter can let us know if they don't want it there and we'll take it out if so.)
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#183Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
While I'm not trying to invalidate your point, it seems that given the size of 1MB sites you could have a backup of a few milions of websites for under $1[0]. Also, while the maximum size is 1mb not all sites would use all available quota so the actual average size will probably be lower than 1 megabyte driving the cost down even further. This means that that even without VS's or other investors a single person would be able to cover the costs of keeping those sites. Well, assuming there is a will to do so.
[0] For example,archive storage at OVH runs at 0.0026$ per GB, so having a backup of 4 million 1mb sites would cost 1.04$/month for three copies of data.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s rarely about the cost and more about the level of effort to maintain said service. Without a plan in place it’s hard to accept “it Shouldn’t lose money” as valid proof that you won’t grow bored of this in 1...2...5...10 years. Also, more lucrative things may come up and take up your time, making running this current service unappealing or impossible.
My point is $100 is about a year and a half of monthly 1MB Pro payments, so you only need to bank on 1MB lasting a year and a half at least not “forever” to get your money’s worth (and you’re supporting an indie project). Anyways I’ve added a disclaimer: “Forever or for the life of the project. 1MB isn't going anywhere, but we also can't predict the future. No refunds!“
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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#186Congratulations on your HN success.
Having that built in DB is a killer feature to me.
Does the DB prevent hackers from overwriting keys?
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
They are redefining "forever" to mean "until the service closes".
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
for now :)
Forever.
To be fair though, I don't think that's a huge problem. Plenty of excellent static site generators exist (I use Jekyll) and truth be told if you want any real level of functionality this probably isn't the service for you anyway.
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Sorry I have no time for closed-source things.
Fair enough! I just can’t make all my hard work open source.. I’m trying to build a business. There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.
>There’s a time and a place for open source, and I’d only be helping my competitors as an indie developer.
With all due respect, your "business" is static web hosting, which is not exactly a revolutionary or paradigm shifting concept. There's likely little to no competitive advantage in any of the code you've written, or disadvantage to open sourcing it (although it's understandable if you don't want to open source it, then be left on the hook to maintain it.)
It's fine if you want to try to make money with a passion project, but as far as the market is concerned, you already lost the race to social media and the cloud before you even started. You're not actually competing with anyone in any meaningful sense, any more than Hacker News is competing with Reddit.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#190Things 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
I ran one of the larger free hosts and managed and hosted around 100 others; security is a big issue. If you get mildly popular the number of attacks will jump up. Hope you know more than I did and that the tech evolved enough; the hosts I built and managed were 10+ years ago and I had to create my own freehost specific patches to php, apache and mysql to protect from abuse. You do not do dynamic so that makes a large difference, still they will try!
Edit; we also made custom scanners for porn and phishing; especially phishing, at that time had a simply pattern; the phishing page(s) would have keywords in them and would not be linked anywhere on the domain while not being the index.html. That allowed us to move almost all of them automatically.