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

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Post by bachmeier »

1mbsite wrote: post #202
bachmeier wrote: post #198

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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.

I appreciate your concern but I already have paying customers

Okay, but to be honest that completely misses the point. I'm about as willing to pay for this as anyone out there, and if I drank coffee I'd have spit out my coffee when I saw the price. The fact that you currently have some paying customers now doesn't change that.

Good luck!

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

basetop wrote: post #210
chris_st wrote: post #43

Wow, this is fantastic -- can't count the number of "free hosting" sites that are disappointing because they don't have a database. Well done! I may try it out.

What's the point of having a database for a static site though?

1. To store the site content in 2. To store metadata that gets integrated into the generated site 3. To record stats/metadata about the site generation

There's probably other scenarios people can think of.

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

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Post by bugmen0t »

halter73 wrote: post #192
1mbsite wrote: post #117

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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 t…

You likely want a separate domain indeed. See https://security.googleblog.com/2012/08/content-hosting-for-...

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

wazoox wrote: post #213

It displays as garbage on my system (Linux, Firefox 66.0.3): https://screenshots.firefox.com/loCbaBtgGVqoUYeh/1mb.site somewhat better with Chromium but weird nonetheless: http://i.imgur.com/1IbVXEQ.png

I’m at a loss for words does anybody else want to weigh in?

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

basetop wrote: post #210
chris_st wrote: post #43

Wow, this is fantastic -- can't count the number of "free hosting" sites that are disappointing because they don't have a database. Well done! I may try it out.

What's the point of having a database for a static site though?

Check out https://chat.1mb.site and https://forum.1mb.site which are 2 example apps using a 1MB database. Using nothing but JavaScript :)

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

bugmen0t wrote: post #214
halter73 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

You likely want a separate domain indeed. See https://security.googleblog.com/2012/08/content-hosting-for-...

Sites like Tumblr do it and are fine, and they allow custom HTML and JS also. Cookies are HTTP only and inaccessible with JavaScript. And framing is blocked.

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

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Post by 1mbsite »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #169
1mbsite wrote: post #159

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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.

Hit the subscribe to newsletter button in account settings I’m sending out an announcement when monthly pricing launches.
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