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Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by zjp »

jrflowers wrote: post #49
zjp wrote: post #23

Millennials delenda est. Or maybe Gen X. But definitely millennials. I am stockpiling champagne for when performative profanity goes to the grave with the silent generation against which it is still rebelling 70 years later. I do not want to order the sloppy toppy burger at BURGERSLUT. Just give me a cheeseburger. But yes, you should build a website.

> I do not want to order the sloppy toppy burger at BURGERSLUT. Just give me a cheeseburger. Seems odd to complain about the kitschy menu item names after walking into BURGERSLUT intent on ordering

You don’t always get to choose the restaurant. Sometimes your friends drag you places. Sometimes your sister in law wants to go take a photo of the Castro Theater and then get a cookie, and you find yourself in Hot Cookie calling a chocolate chip a Basic Bitch. I just think that these kinds of "perfect agency" gotchas ignore the tradeoffs of living an actual life.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by johnfn »

> The concept of congregating in walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks

Are we really calling everyone we don't like a pedophilic fascist now? I honestly had really hoped that this sort of polarized, low-quality content wouldn't make it onto HN. :(

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by orthecreedence »

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…

NearlyFreeSpeech might be what you want. Been using them for over a decade and still love them. They handle domains/DNS, hosting (static and other), mysql hosting, email forwarding, and much more. They also have great content policies, ie they only kick you off if you're breaking the law.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by speedgoose »

johnfn wrote: post #73

> The concept of congregating in walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks Are we really calling everyone we don't like a pedophilic fascist now? I honestly had really hoped that this sort of polarized, low-quality content wouldn't make it onto HN. :(

I thought it was pretty factual.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by rkachowski »

Sometimes I get inspired to write something publicly, but then the fact that I'm providing another point of data to ChatGPTs training corpus which helps the american Department of War make shit memes about killing people - stifles that impulse pretty quickly.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by alastairr »

Couldn't agree more. Worth pointing out that sites owned by Meta and Twitter in particular have become much more hostile to signed out users - often impossible to view a business' listing without a signed in account. Walled gardens are going to wall, of course. But I'm not sure how much small business owners realise that a proportion of traffic / interest has much more difficulty in finding them.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by vasco »

unmole wrote: post #66
vasco wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well I've read comments by dang saying they support it so that is besides the point. Just email and find out.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by johnfn »

speedgoose wrote: post #75
johnfn wrote: post #73

> The concept of congregating in walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks Are we really calling everyone we don't like a pedophilic fascist now? I honestly had really hoped that this sort of polarized, low-quality content wouldn't make it onto HN. :(

I thought it was pretty factual.

If you think that everyone who works on a website that is a walled garden is a "pedophile fascist", I don't know what to say to you -- I don't think we live in the same reality.

Re: Have a fucking website

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Post by kraai »

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…

I think many people here are overthinking it. OP is mostly talking about simple business website not huge platforms to host. Ddos protection is kind of irrelvant for such small projects. But anyhow there are so many local hosting companies (europe) for at least the last 10 years that provide a free ssl cert, one-click options for wordpress etc. It’s really not that complicated.
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