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http://neverssl.com/changes > I also want to keep neverssl.com ad free, but as it's now costing me about $2,000 a year to host it, […] Wait, how could hosting a static website cost $2k/year?!
that's either a lie, or that's because the owner doesn't care about saving costs. I've hosted more dynamic webpages with large amount of traffic on servers that were costing me 20$/month.
http://neverssl.com/changes > I also want to keep neverssl.com ad free, but as it's now costing me about $2,000 a year to host it, […] Wait, how could hosting a static website cost $2k/year?!
that's either a lie, or that's because the owner doesn't care about saving costs. I've hosted more dynamic webpages with large amount of traffic on servers that were costing me 20$/month.
I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing and it costs what it costs for a reason.
Shortest SSL-free domain I've found is "x.com". Also works for email. Apologies to x@x.com (sorry Elon!).
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that's either a lie, or that's because the owner doesn't care about saving costs. I've hosted more dynamic webpages with large amount of traffic on servers that were costing me 20$/month.
The owner is Colm MacCárthaigh https://twitter.com/colmmacc . He's a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS Networking and is the author of s2n - https://github.com/awslabs/s2n . I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing and it costs what it costs for a reason.
http://example.com also does this, albeit without the promise of never switching
It's just your standard parked domain. I typed it in when I was frustrated one time trying to log into a public wifi. It worked and I didn't even understand why back then.
http://neverssl.com/changes > I also want to keep neverssl.com ad free, but as it's now costing me about $2,000 a year to host it, […] Wait, how could hosting a static website cost $2k/year?!
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Can't do any useful caching for a purposefully cache-busting website
it's not cache-busting, it's captive-portal busting. there's no reason it couldn't be cached on some service that charges less for bandwidth than AWS does.
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from the same page: > it's just a simple website hosted on AWS lots of ways of spending a lot of money on hosting a website on AWS. Hard to judge precisely without traffic numbers.
That page says 6 million hits per day.
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that's either a lie, or that's because the owner doesn't care about saving costs. I've hosted more dynamic webpages with large amount of traffic on servers that were costing me 20$/month.
The owner is Colm MacCárthaigh https://twitter.com/colmmacc . He's a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS Networking and is the author of s2n - https://github.com/awslabs/s2n . I'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing and it costs what it costs for a reason.
It's possible $166/mo is not enough of a hit on his income so as to be worth spending time optimizing (unlikely considering how little time it'd seemingly take to optimize), or since he works for AWS it could be sponsored (which would mean he has to justify the continued cost to his bosses when they ask about it).
All valid reasons, but not technical ones. Either there's some aspect of implementing this that we're not thinking of, or there are non-technical reasons involved that we're simply unaware of.
"This website is for when you try to open Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc on a wifi network, and nothing happens. Type " http://neverssl.com" into your browser's url bar, and you'll be able to log on." I don't get it. How does browsing to http://neverssl.com help you to log in to other websites?
It lets you access the portal to connect to wifi by allowing the router to MITM the connection due to the lack of SSL and bypassing caching with the random subdomain. After successfully connecting through whatever custom router software you'll be able to log in to those other websites.