Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Run Your Own Website

zacs.site

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

141–150 of 160 posts

Re: Run Your Own Website

#141

Post by madengr »

cr0sh wrote: post #63
madengr wrote: post #16

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.

While you can still do what you did, likely you wouldn't have a static IP - at least not here in the United States. Most home connections have a dynamic IP provided by DHCP; now, usually, that IP won't change (probably tied to the MAC address of the modem or router) - but it can change. So what most routers provide is a way to report the IP to a service like "Dynamic DNS" ( https://dyn.com/dns/ - which used to be fre…

It’s a true static IP; been paying $12 extra each month since 2003. It’s Consolidated Communications here in Kansas City, and never had an issue running servers. They actually still provide Usenet too. I keep it static as I have some SDR hardware I want easy access to.

The only thing that sucks is the way asymmetric 100/5 service. I could get 300/30 with Spectrum, but I don’t want to deal with that headache, and they would charge me business class. Google and AT&T are dragging their feet on fiber. It’s a few blocks away still. Seems they move a block every few years.

Re: Run Your Own Website

#142

Post by blakewatson »

pnutjam wrote: post #26
__mp wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

0) Get a cheap virtual/dedicated machine. 1) Install docker and docker-compose 2) Setup traefik, a reverse proxy, in docker (good starting point: https://docs.traefik.io/user-guide/docker-and-lets-encrypt/ ). 3) Run $docker container (ghost, wordpress...). I typically use one docker-compose file for each domain. "expose" is not necessary because the requests are proxied by traefik. Here's a docker-compose sample for…

Nah, just use nearlyfreespeech.net You get a bsd host with shell access for cheap.

I love NFSN. To me, it feels like a step up from conventional shared hosting, while not going as far as to be a VPS. Despite the price increase, I'm still a happy, longtime customer.

Re: Run Your Own Website

#143

Post by provlem »

There are various platform like - usercv.com, about.me who provides personal resume website without coding.

github.io is already there who provides such thing if someone knows coding.

Re: Run Your Own Website

#144

Post by Terretta »

marktangotango wrote: post #20

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?

Y Combinator’s own Garry Tan tried it with posterious and is so far succeeding with posthaven:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Tan

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous

https://posthaven.com

Our pledge to you: We'll never get acquired. We'll never shut down. You pay. We keep the lights on.

What would it be like to make a service that lasts for 10 years? 100 years? That’s what we’re trying to build at Posthaven. We’re as sick as you are to have to switch services every few years, or worry about running your own servers and getting hacked all the time.

To do that, it’ll take a small team of engineers who quietly maintain the software like a constant gardener, quietly doing the right things over time.

That’s us.

Simple, easy blogs for $5 a month, forever.

Re: Run Your Own Website

#145

Post by AlchemistCamp »

I think this is great advice and I tend to agree with it.

However, TechLead has recently given me pause. He spun up his YouTube channel and then quickly monetized it by dropping Paypal links into the video descriptions. He later made a video talking about doing this and how he thought it was a waste for people wanting to sell dresses, for example, to build a site with a cart and checkout, etc, instead of just selling right where their audience already was.

At the size his channel is now, I think it's a bit crazy of him not to have a site, but he's had larger success as an entrepreneur than I have thus far...

Re: Run Your Own Website

#146

Post by sircastor »

madengr wrote: post #16

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.

Like a lot of things, I ran out of time to be my own sysadmin. Same reason I have up on ddwrt

Re: Run Your Own Website

#147

Post by egypturnash »

melling wrote: post #46
gbuk2013 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 :)

One person with a simple text editor isn’t going to be nearly as productive as someone who chooses a modern stack with better tools. I left open my prior tools, etc so as not to bias the answers. I’ve done lots of Java, Python, Swift, some Go, etc but I’m willing to learn anything, so forget that you know that. I’m looking for a big lever.

WordPress. It’s profoundly unsexy. It’s also solid.

Do you want to fuck around with building another CMS that nobody but you will use, and which you will probably only use for about three posts before throwing it out and making another CMS built on today’s hot tools? Or do you want a website that you can get to be reasonably pretty without much work, and which you can update from multiple devices?

Seriously I spent a while setting up WP a decade ago and it’s been where I post everything I make. I don’t have to futz with it unless I want to make a cool new theme for a new comics project, it just sits there updating itself for me and waiting for me to feel like writing a new post or whatever.

(Okay I do need to spend some time futzing with it soon, the latest WP update won’t run on the decade-old version of PHP I set it up with, and something in it breaks when I try to switch which version my shared host is using. That’s once in like a decade.)

Re: Run Your Own Website

#148

Post by [deleted] »

ibudiallo wrote: post #47
derefr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use the “clever hacks” because I’m afraid of one of my blog articles getting linked to on Reddit. Even if there are no ads on my site, I want it to stay up and readable, and I don’t want to suddenly get an egress-bandwidth bill in the process! Also, despite having done ops for years, I don’t want my continued willingness to do ops (as with DO/Linode/Vultr) or my continued usage of my small municipal ISP (or even my…

> I use the “clever hacks” because I’m afraid of one of my blog articles getting linked to on Reddit. Even if there are no ads on my site, I want it to stay up and readable, and I don’t want to suddenly get an egress-bandwidth bill! I use DO. My site often gets linked on Reddit and hn and the $10 service handles it just fine. One article I wrote recently got 5 million web requests.

[deleted]

Re: Run Your Own Website

#149

Post by erklik »

pletnes wrote: post #102
ilogik wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't even need a home server, something like netlify or surge.sh makes it dead-simple.

If you’re a coder, what about github pages?

If your a coder, I've found netlify to be even better. Allows bit more functionality like forms, some server less functions etc.

Re: Run Your Own Website

#150

Post by Invictus0 »

cannonedhamster wrote: post #132
Invictus0 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Home Depot sells a service where you can pay $100 to have a professional handyman come to your house and knock four nails into your wall to install a shelf. People pay this because the level of complexity of using a hammer is too high. I have seen the light go out of the eyes of people with a non-technical background trying to explain even the most basic of engineering concepts (most recently, why I can't get a 10lb…

I am abundantly aware of the skills of most people. I even addressed exactly what you said in my response numerous times. I specifically said you can pay someone to host your site using site builders, templates, etc. None of that prevents someone from hosting their own site. You seem to be conflating hosting your own site from building a site from scratch. Chances are if someone doesn't have the ability to even pay s…

No, you're just not grasping the difficulty here. Every time you introduce a new vocabulary word, you add cognitive load to learn that definition. Google "what is hosting" and you will get even more confused when they start talking about servers. Then they add extras: privacy guard, mail, SSL, even just getting a domain. To complicate things more, if you ask anyone vaguely technical for help, they will start talking about how you're getting ripped off and recommend S3 buckets and FTP access etc etc. These are not simple things; and I'm not saying all that to say oh, there's some idiots out there that can't do it; I'm saying this because when I built my own website, at 17 years old and with absolutely no CS background, my personal experience was that it was a very big learning curve and I think the average person just will not make it.

With a platform, you just... write. And it just works.

Post reply on HN