The cost doesn't really matter as much as the payment methods, especially at that price point.
Payment methods are inherently discriminatory.
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 $0.01/day
#92This is a pretty weird article/movement.
The greatest hurdle is almost definitely a domain name, which if you want to own the content you have to get. Which even the cheapest would cost you around 6$ a year. (I'm ignoring the "tk" tld, which is kind of a honeypot)
And you can host for a static site for free in a million places. CDNs free tiers are enough for individuals.
I don't get the preoccupation with hosting your own server, what matters is that you own your own identifier (in this case a domain name) whatever it points is vastly less important.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#93I'm just paying for the domain...
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#94> 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"?
NFS supports dynamic websites (giving you access to a full Linux system with many programming languages), though you’ll have to pay more.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#95Personal, but I’d rather learn and own a process. 1. Learn how you can get HTML generated from a human-readable and writer-friendly format, say, Markdown (plain-text). This can be Pandoc, a macOS/Win wrapper desktop UI over Pandoc, and many other tools that do this. 2. Learn the process (and the tools) to upload, or sync to a service that hosts the HTML (CSS+JS). 3. Learn the simple steps of owning of a domain, and u…
From the article:
> When your posts are individual HTML files (not Markdown files or database entries), they can finally be seen as the individual web pages that they truly are. And that means that you can really lean into making all of your posts unique! They don’t all have to be cookie-cutter paper-doll clones of one another; that’s just a bi-product of modern web publishing tools and the cultural influence that they have on our concept of a “blog”. You can now go ahead and make every blog post as special and individual as you’d like. Each post can have its own personality, baked right into its HTML. Individual style, individual appearance, even individual layout. Literally everything is possible with this approach.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#96This is a pretty weird article/movement. The greatest hurdle is almost definitely a domain name, which if you want to own the content you have to get. Which even the cheapest would cost you around 6$ a year. (I'm ignoring the "tk" tld, which is kind of a honeypot) And you can host for a static site for free in a million places. CDNs free tiers are enough for individuals. I don't get the preoccupation with hosting you…
6USD per year adds about 0.016USD per day. Definitely more, still pretty cheap.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, sure, windows. But here’s one I heard literally two days ago: we counted three engineers (out of many) who knew that physical memory was not actually a giant flat space of contiguous addresses, and that there were multiple layers of address-mapping and region-joining glue logic between a program and the hardware, including in os libraries, and even inside the hardware. Maybe knowing such information is archaic or…
But physical memory is a giant flat space of contiguous addresses. Do you mean virtual memory?
How could it be? For example, each memory stick doesn't know beforehand what other memory sticks it will be used with, so the "physical" addressing of the memory on each stick has to be independent of the others, i.e. a local address, that gets mapped to a virtual one.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#98Just a call out for sdf.org.
Perhaps useful for those training developers mentioned in some posts here who need the TIL experience with unix based systems. Free shell account on a netbsd unix, and I recollect that a small one-off donation provides access to Web space and other enhancements. Choose the login name wisely as that becomes the subdomain for the Web space.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#99this would work if we had free DNS. solving DNS to be trully decentralized and free is something for years I wish I had more time to work on and build
key properties:
1. everyone can be a registar. your localhost too
2. blockchain proof of ownership and discovery (certs, not proof-of-work, fast and cheap ledger)
3. everyone can be a CA (self-signed certs pinned in blockchain)
4. no fixation on static IPs (inspired by Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale). IPs are ephemeral.
5. blockchain/P2P discovery of domains
but it is all fantasy without real browsers support (Chrome, Safari). 99.999% of traffic is locked there, and both controlled by monopolies Google / Apple. and you cannot even build your own browser (Apple App Store will not allow it). Maybe alternative stores and some proxies / translation layer from normal web to this web would help.
Re: Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
#100This is a pretty weird article/movement. The greatest hurdle is almost definitely a domain name, which if you want to own the content you have to get. Which even the cheapest would cost you around 6$ a year. (I'm ignoring the "tk" tld, which is kind of a honeypot) And you can host for a static site for free in a million places. CDNs free tiers are enough for individuals. I don't get the preoccupation with hosting you…
> I don't get the preoccupation with hosting your own server
The field of software engineering is dominated by the smart people that do something not because they have to but out of curiosity.
I've hired a bunch of people and I was always looking for curiosity and drive most of all. A degree doesn't help you if you don't care.