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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by wolfhumble »

elwebmaster wrote: post #43

What techies are missing is that AI doesn't make it possible for mom and pop shops to create and manage a website but it levels the playing field for enterprenuers. We can't expect plumbers and restaurant owners to spend 12+ hours fighting with AI website builders just to get a cookie cutter-website that is nothing more than a brochure. Nor can they fork thousands of dollars for web design agencies and spend months i…

They have already been doing that for 10-15 years via page builders and themes in Wordpress. It is easier now, but small players have had relatively decent tools for quite some time.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by rich_sasha »

A few comments point out, and I agree, that setting up, never mind maintaining a webpage, has become a PITA:

- server (AWS? 10 optional services to config etc etc, config, updates etc)

- domain

- SSL cert

Are there solid providers who do it all-in-one? I pay one bill, get a domain, SSL certificate, renewed, and a managed, pre-configured Linux box, or even static hosting? Thinking of setting up a webpage for my consulting business and I'd rather not spend weeks fiddling with all this, or (shudder) use Wix.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by asukachikaru »

tayo42 wrote: post #29
asukachikaru wrote: post #22

On one hand, I totally agree, as I'm all for indie small web. Haven't used Facebook and Instagram for years. On the other hand, it's not (small) business owners deliberately choose to not have a website, it's customers saying it's too much friction for anything outside of FB or IG. For some people if you are not on IG you do not exist, no matter how nice your website is.

I don't think he's saying don't have social media and replace it with a website but also have a basic website in addition to what ever else your doing

Then it's twice the work. For a mom-and-pop restaurant, putting food on the table (pun intended) probably already cost them 24 hours a day.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by rkagerer »

IMO it comes down to making your stuff available without it being behind a login-wall, pay-wall, ad-wall etc. The big platforms have made it seductively easy to get started with little effort, but you rob yourself of audience by letting them lock up your content behind it. I hope we see a larger exodus of users who take the author's lead and escape the walled gardens.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by unmole »

vasco wrote: post #54
andreygrehov wrote: post #46

+1 I can’t even delete my old stuff on HN. I don’t own my comments here. In contrast, I can go ahead and delete any of my Facebook posts or comments from 10 years ago. In a way, HN is more hostile than Facebook.

I'm sure I've read they support this if you email them. It's a manual action but if you're based in Europe they will have to do it by law.

> Europe they will have to do it by law.

Realistically, they can simply ignore it with no consequences.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by techterrier »

dickiedyce wrote: post #45
replooda wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Millenniales delendi sunt." Now, write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sunrise...

I daren’t ask “What have Millennials ever done for us?” because I have a suspicion that it would be a surprisingly unfunny answer.

they gave us doggo

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by flomo »

zhivota wrote: post #51

So how do I do that? I can't host it easily on the machine in the office because NAT and dynamic IPs have trained us that this is not really possible (it is, buty you have to know what you're doing). Pay a hosting provider, but who? Do I need to buy an SSL certificate, because we decided we need HTTPS everywhere for some reason? What about if my site gets DDOSed? Do I get charged more? So I can use something free lik…

Irrelevant nerd myopia. They mostly just paid someone to do it (until they decided "wordpress guy" was not worth the marketing budget). If anything DYI is easier than ever.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by pprotas »

rich_sasha wrote: post #63

A few comments point out, and I agree, that setting up, never mind maintaining a webpage, has become a PITA: - server (AWS? 10 optional services to config etc etc, config, updates etc) - domain - SSL cert Are there solid providers who do it all-in-one? I pay one bill, get a domain, SSL certificate, renewed, and a managed, pre-configured Linux box, or even static hosting? Thinking of setting up a webpage for my consul…

This has always been the case, not sure why you’d frame it as a recent development. Not that long ago you even had to PAY for an SSL cert. Domains are nothing new. You always needed a server.
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