Azure has a free tier that is fairly generous.
Also the Always Free Oracle Cloud tier is pretty generous. You can spin up a VM or two with it.
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1. Why even pay the penny? Spinning a onion service is trivial...and...more secure than the clearwebz. I've made a few easy to spin up services. Heck, you can even run it off your phone. Nanogram https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/nanogram Spreadsheet Server https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/spreadsheet Library Server https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/libraryserver Torum (HN Clone) https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/t…
I wonder if the fact that you linked to clear web source code links rather than onion links demonstrates why people might pay the penny…
Making something as easy as possible to try demonstrates why you need to pay a penny? I don't follow.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#73It'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…
However, it'll also bring all the bots and "wild west" of the internet to your house when you run your web server from home, and for anyone who has a couple of spare dollars, it's a much wiser choice to run a small VPS elsewhere to weather the storm.
[Internet facing router with up to date firmware] --> HTTPS --> [separate VLAN DMZ] --> [my hardcore IndieWeb VM/k8s/bare-metal whatever] --> [x No outbound access / paranoid local firewall inside the VM x]
[My home computer] --> SSH --> [my hardcore IndieWeb local cloud]
That's about it. Safe enough.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no such thing as a TLD that's uncontrollable by any entity. How would you imagine such a thing working? Whatever you imagine: how does it stand up to me editing the hosts file, or the browser's source code?
>There's no such thing as a TLD that's uncontrollable by any entity. Think .crypto but without the ability to upgrade the smart contract to censor domains. The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists. >how does it stand up to me editing the hosts file, or the browser's source code? No one can force you…
> The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists.
Ultimately, someone has to be in control of who is or is not part of that decentralized network that is the registry. (Or, alternatively phrased, how are you preventing me from saying "I'm part of the .crypto registry, totes.")
Aside from that, the root nameservers is still an entity that is controlled (by ICANN, specifically).
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
shrug In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.
One time has to be the first and when you get hacked they're instantly inside your network unless you were smart enough to set up a DMZ or something. Especially if you host something like wordpress with plugins you really have to be on the ball with updates.
For 20 years this was not really an issue. From 2010 to 2020 there wasn't a single nginx cve that applied to my simple static setup. There were literally only a handful of remote CVE at all. With the advent of LLM AI exploit finding there have been 2 CVE this year that I had to look in to. Neither actually applied to me, but it is a different world out there.
That said, the practice of running a modern corporate web browser that auto-executes all programs sent to it from arbitrary unknown third parties is a way, way, way bigger and more common and likely attack surface than a simple static webserver serving files in directories.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
One time has to be the first and when you get hacked they're instantly inside your network unless you were smart enough to set up a DMZ or something. Especially if you host something like wordpress with plugins you really have to be on the ball with updates.
For 20 years this was not really an issue. From 2010 to 2020 there wasn't a single nginx cve that applied to my simple static setup. There were literally only a handful of remote CVE at all . With the advent of LLM AI exploit finding there have been 2 CVE this year that I had to look in to. Neither actually applied to me, but it is a different world out there. That said, the practice of running a modern corporate web…
Ok fair enough yes a static site is really low risk. Usually it's more involved than that though.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
>There's no such thing as a TLD that's uncontrollable by any entity. Think .crypto but without the ability to upgrade the smart contract to censor domains. The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists. >how does it stand up to me editing the hosts file, or the browser's source code? No one can force you…
> The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists. Ultimately, someone has to be in control of who is or is not part of that decentralized network that is the registry. (Or, alternatively phrased, how are you preventing me from saying "I'm part of the .crypto registry, totes .") Aside from that, the root na…
>Ultimately, someone has to be in control of who is or is not part of that decentralized network
Ethereum is an unpermissioned network. Anyone is free to join or leave at anytime.
>how are you preventing me from saying "I'm part of the .crypto registry, totes.")
The registry would be a smart contract. There doesn't fundamentally need to be an owner.
>how are you preventing me from saying "I'm part of the .crypto registry, totes.")
Name resolving doesn't have to be done by ICANN's domain name system. You can have alternates that do not depend on centralized servers.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#78I don't get it. I've been doing this for over 20 years exactly the same way. I even ran a business. The server I rent is $2/month. I read nothing new in anything in that article. I don't get it.
You are clearly not the target audience. Perhaps you can recognize that other more recent internet frequenters might appreciate the knowledge.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#79Nearlyfreespeech is a great service though not a 100% independent as your still relying on them. I think the closest you can get to 100% independent without running your own internet infrastructure is either port forwarding from your home (if allowed) or hosting a website through TOR which isn't too hard. You just have to download the browser and edit a config file (torrc) with the port you want on the network. Not i…
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Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#80I'm building an Astro starter template that also makes it easy to start your own website / blog: https://github.com/BryanHogan/astro-starter-template
Astro is a framework that uses no JavaScript by default. I also use just HTML and CSS, so no bloated additional frameworks or styling libraries.
All blog content is written as Markdown or .mdx files, so it's easy to write and move to any other tool if you wish to do so.
You can host it for free using any major provider since it's just a static website (e.g., GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, etc.).
Making it similar to my own website which is on: https://bryanhogan.com/