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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 neogodless »

bayindirh wrote: post #7
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…

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.

shrug

In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.

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

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Post by bayindirh »

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.

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

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Post by bartlebone »

This article is a great example for anyone in their 50’s who is worried about not having relevant skills anymore.

Although calling it hardcore makes it sound like porn. Too bad they had to add that term for something painfully not hardcore.

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

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Post by bayindirh »

neogodless wrote: post #11
bayindirh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

shrug In 25 years of hosting a dozen domain names on a server on my home connection, this problem has not surfaced for me.

In 20 years of managing server fleets, I always had the pleasure of watching bots taking a dig at my server(s) the moment I give their public IPs and enable their interfaces.

For someone who knows what they are doing, it's more like mosquito noise, a mere nuisance, but even then, using a rock solid system with all updates installed carries the risk of having a zero-day.

If your server is networked to the rest of the house, and if somebody manages to get in, then it's all fun(!).

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

#16

Post by bartlebone »

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 are pretty cool. Do you segregate your server from your home domain too? Little weird having cloudflared on my home network. It make things a little more annoying but I haven’t bothered to fix it since I dev on the same production server.

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

#17

Post by al_borland »

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.

The lack of basic computer knowledge I’ve seen from developers is terrifying.

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

#18

Post by wizzwizz4 »

tamimio wrote: post #5

Well this is great, even going further and hosting the site itself and serve it instead of webhosts, but, now we have domains issue, a domain registrar hijacking your domain, which is your life work, email, etc., so there’s a need to have a free tld that’s uncontrollable by any entity, .onion isn’t practical obviously.

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?

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

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Post by ivanjermakov »

> 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"?

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

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Post by busymom0 »

bartlebone wrote: post #16
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 are pretty cool. Do you segregate your server from your home domain too? Little weird having cloudflared on my home network. It make things a little more annoying but I haven’t bothered to fix it since I dev on the same production server.

My server is a different computer which only does this. It's not on my personal computer.
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