Awesome work, I will introduce this to my kid. With the built-in database/kv-store and excellent UX, I can't think of a better platform to get started with web development.
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you had a proper security review? I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective. Like, it's OK that you didn't, but maybe you should check that your entire public API (all microservices, UI, etc) will really be secure. You will probably struggle to get a secure interface while user content is served fro…
For reference @hopscotch appears to be referring to this post: https://forum.1mb.site/?t=1556326142930 I think the interaction in this forum thread says a lot about my focus on security. An issue was reported and I jumped on it immediately. I’m not going to sit here and claim to be perfect, but I am going to tell you that I work really hard to make sure I do stuff right and fix my mistakes ASAP. I have had white hat…
Kudos for quickly adding an anti-csrf token to logout, but I agree with the grandparent that hosting arbitrary user content on the same TLD as the management interface is still problematic security-wise.
See github.com vs github.io[1], amazon.com vs. elasticbeanstalk.com, azure.com vs azurewebsites.net, etc... Every major company I know of that hosts arbitrary user content dedicates a TLD to it that's not shared by the management APIs.
[1] https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu...
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#193Things 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…
free.fr has been offering this, ad-free, since the 90s. It is Xavier Niel company, Free is a French ISP and he alos funded "42" : a private, nonprofit and tuition-free computer programming school IT school.
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#194How does it work in terms of security? If I make my sites' database writeable by authenticated users, doesn't in mean that any authenticated client can send a request to delete all records?
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#195What can you really do with 1 megabyte? Clearly nothing serious. Why suggest it's free then? Neocities provides 1GB which is actually a relevant amount.
My Neocities site is still under 1KB I think. If you're writing HTML/CSS by hand it has no reason to get really big.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you guaranteeing that sites on 1MB will live forever?
They are redefining "forever" to mean "until the service closes".
This reminds me of "lifetime" warranties on products where "lifetime" is defined as some arbitrary lifetime of the product, rather than the lifetime of the buyer.
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#198If 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.
I honestly can't imagine anyone paying $60 a year for what you're offering. Sorry to be negative, and I wish you the best, but the person that suggested that amount is someone you shouldn't listen to a second time. You're either going to have to figure out how to provide more value or cut the price.
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#199Earlier 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…
> software "engineers"
The quotes aren't necessary. They definitely have a few good software engineers, and this issue definitely isn't a technical one.
Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database
#200Super nice. Despite presence of weebly, gumroad, shopify, squarespace, carrd et al, there is something missing that would put the rest of world on web, I feel; much like how WhatsApp has replaced most modes of personal communication in one fell swoop over the years, and how Twitter has taken over micro-blogging (key point: Both are free). To do that, I guess, 1mb or similar businesses could add capability to create a…
WhatsApp is aggressively anti automation unless you're a big business. I'd definitely go for updates via email, though.
Whatsapp is opening it's biz API [0], hence founders are publicly speaking against it [1].
If you are big you get it first indeed.
[0]: https://www.twilio.com/whatsapp [1]: https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/26/whatsapp-founder-brian-act...