Run Your Own Website • Hacker News Board

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by Angostura » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:33 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #8

echelon wrote: post #4

> [...] Medium, for example, because the company owns all the content you publish there. Is this true? I am absolutely shocked if so. I would assume Medium might get a license to display your content, but do you actually transfer your ownership to them by posting? If so, that's dastardly wicked.

https://medium.com/policy/medium-terms-of-service-9db0094a1e... says: > You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium. > By posting content to Medium, you give us a nonexclusive license to publish it on Medium Services, including anything reasonably related to publishing it (like storing, displaying, reformatting, and distributing it). In consideration for Medium granting you access to and use of th…

It looks pragmatic and reasonable to me. You give them the non exclusive license they need to publish it. You allow them to show ads. You allow them to use your content in ads. If they get bought, well their successor would have the same rights.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by melling » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:38 PM UTC

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch?

I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by beigeoak » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

Github Pages is free and mirrors your git repository as a website.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by jordanmoconnor » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

Highly recommend Jekyll/GitHub pages for static sites.

Many people recommend Jekyll/Hugo/Vue-press + Netlify as well.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by jaziek » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:48 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

define "from scratch".

As the saying goes, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by madengr » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

Sheesh, 20 years ago I had a static IP, along with my own server running web, mail, and DNS servers, in my apartment.

Either things are more complicated these days, or I just got tired of running it. Probably the latter. Then again, doing something like putting a downloadable file on Wordpress is difficult. It was easy on my own server.

At least I still have a static IP and my old domain name.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by Tomte » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:52 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

I like Dokuwiki.

Not static, but easy to backup (plain text instead of database), many plugins, article versioning, easy editing (even on the mobile phone), a servicable, if unexciting, design that's mobile friendly.

If you want to be productive, and "productive" does not mean building web software (which is fine!), worry less about the software and write more.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by xorand » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

okaleniuk wrote: post #10

I do run my own site. Moreover, I do all the coding, styling, and layout manually and without any 3rd-party libraries or frameworks. Or even in-house libraries for that matter. This works for me in terms of freedom. I can do interactive plots, quizzes, games and all kind of programmable things I can imagine. No restrictions. In fact, I left Medium because I was restricted to text and images only. I want more. I want…

I enjoyed your https://wordsandbuttons.online/fortran_is_still_a_thing.html

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by gbuk2013 » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #12

Any opinions on what are the best software choices for a single person to use in 2019 to build a website from scratch? I’d be willing to learn something new if I knew in 2 years, I’d be extremely productive.

Without knowing your OS: a text editor of some sort and an FTP/SFTP client.

Then just get shared web hosting account - there are lots to chose from and they are super cheap these days. You can go a long way with that without having to mess around with maintaining your own server (unless you want to - I do :)

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by marktangotango » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 3:00 PM UTC

What I’d like to see is a geocities but with: database, server side scripting, caching, memcache, and https free for limited use with a performance and availability guarantee. What would it take to get this on a massive scale?