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Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by shermantanktop »

bayindirh wrote: post #12
jdjdjdjdjd wrote: post #9

Kind of funny that this is like some strange new concept... Having a web server and putting your stuff on it.

Considering many people doesn't know what a file is, keeping the spirit alive is important, I think.

I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is.

It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by odie5533 »

variety8675 wrote: post #2

It is nice to see a site preaching this that isn't hosted by Cloudflare or GitHub Pages

Github Pages is free hosting with domains and ssl, no bills, and has good longevity and prospects. I don't want to worry or think about a static site, and big players like Github and Cloudflare seem to fit that best.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by IanCal »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #19

> run 100% independently > For just $0.01/day, you can run a static website at NearlyFreeSpeech.net I respect the spotlight on hosting your own websites, but it's not much different from the usual Vercel/Netlify/GitHub/Cloudflare static hosting. What if I want a database, feedback form, social media previews, good SEO? Article says nothing about it. Perhaps that's what makes a website "indie"?

You have access to php and a database there.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by segmondy »

busymom0 wrote: post #8

I self host my site [1] on an old Mac mini in a Swift backend and sqlite database. Only thing I rely upon someone for is Cloudflare tunnels for free. I could replace that with port forwarding but so far, this way is pretty good. [1] https://limereader.com/

same here, except a 5 yrs old raspberry pi hanging off a power adapter on the floor.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by christophilus »

shermantanktop wrote: post #21
bayindirh wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering many people doesn't know what a file is, keeping the spirit alive is important, I think.

I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is. It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.

If they were Windows game developers, they wouldn’t have to touch any of that. I guess it depends on where their interests lie and what platform they developed on.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by 3eb7988a1663 »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #19

> run 100% independently > For just $0.01/day, you can run a static website at NearlyFreeSpeech.net I respect the spotlight on hosting your own websites, but it's not much different from the usual Vercel/Netlify/GitHub/Cloudflare static hosting. What if I want a database, feedback form, social media previews, good SEO? Article says nothing about it. Perhaps that's what makes a website "indie"?

I get your point, but I still remember that guy who got a $100k Netlify bill for his free plan.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by tancop »

Jabrov wrote: post #4
superkuh wrote: post #3

It's good advice, but one need not even include the "upload it to a web server" these days now that home connections are so fast. Install some static webserver on your desktop computer (nginx, caddy, whatever), forward the port 80 at your router to it's lanip:80, and just save .html and files to the web directory using your normal desktop interface. It doesn't matter if you shut off the computer sometimes. Uptime doe…

You need a static IP address for this to work is the downside, and depending on where you live and who your provider it it can be difficult and/or expensive.

you can go ipv6 only, any good isp will give you a static /56 for free. practically none of your users have ipv4 only devices when every major os has been dual stack by default for like 15 years. if your isp cant give you one its time to switch as soon as you can.

Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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Post by wolvoleo »

tamimio wrote: post #10
busymom0 wrote: post #8

I self host my site [1] on an old Mac mini in a Swift backend and sqlite database. Only thing I rely upon someone for is Cloudflare tunnels for free. I could replace that with port forwarding but so far, this way is pretty good. [1] https://limereader.com/

> Cloudflare tunnels for free. I could replace that with port forwarding You could replace it with something better, like pangolin, either their cloud or even self host it too, and that way you can tunnel to other stuff like if you have a media server where you can watch your movies from anywhere in the world.

Yeah I find it a bit funny when people self host to get away from cloud and then use Cloudflare tunnels.
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