This seems like a good place to ask. Are there any free and reliable services to notify you when your website/web service is unavailable?
Run Your Own Website
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WOW. You have no idea how much it makes he happy and encouraged to see that NFS is still making it. They were my first webhost, for price alone, and then overtime became my default because of the support. Eventually moved on when my needs evolved and sort of...forgot about them until this comment.
I've been with them for about 10 years now. They've increased pricing and decreased support at the same time. They have introduced (probably 8 years ago) a static site option which is considerably cheaper. But moving my static sites to S3 would be considerably cheaper.
Unfortunately, they discontinued the static site option 2(?) years ago. Now all sites are dynamic, but my static site costs have barely gone up, so its all good.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I stand corrected, you have proven that it is impossible for some people to grasp even basic concepts when determined to do so. I yield that my front line support for end users of over 13 years provides me no insights into the average, or even below average user and that your experience setting up a website at 17 trumps everything. There's just no possible way with good support some people could set up their own website, blog, or otherwise despite the fact that so many actually do it every single day. Congratulations on winning.
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#154Any 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.
Netlify and a static site generator of your choice, preferably one that uses a language you’re already familiar with. I use Middleman for example, but there‘s also the much more popular Jekyll in Ruby-land.
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#155Sheesh, 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…
>last I checked, you can't get use a letsencrypt certificate with these, depending on how they have things set up
I'm doing that on my hosting at Namecheap.
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#156Yup. People tend to assume running your own site is difficult but running a static webserver is dead simple. As long as you don't involve all the unneeded dynamic language and database it's secure and doesn't really need updating all the time either. 90% of people can run a static web server on their home connection and it would fulfill their every requirement (as well as solving almost all 'problems' that exist on t…
Existing web servers such as Nginx are really good. I recommend (free)BSD as a web server, although it does have a learning curve - it is secure by default.
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#157I 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…
Your website is fantastic! I love how minimal and fast loading it is. Could you please enlighten on how you manage to make an HTML page interactive (for e.g. on vectorization page where I can move bezier curve handles)?
Thanks!
It's simple, all the interactive plots are HTML canvases with a set of event handler assigned to them. I trigger init ialization functions right after the elements declarations, and they assign all the events: https://github.com/akalenuk/wordsandbuttons/blob/380c97f2535...
Almost every event changes the state somewhere and triggers the redrawing function: https://github.com/akalenuk/wordsandbuttons/blob/380c97f2535...
And that's all. It's a bit messy since it involves keeping state outside the functions, and it also requires a little boilerplate but it's manageable. Maybe if I would have hundreds of plots per page, this would have been a problem but for a blog-post size pages this works fine.
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#158I 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…
Your website is super cool, thank you for publishing the source on github. Would you mind elaborating on your creation flow for new pages?
Thanks!
It starts with an idea. The whole thing: writing and interactive elements working together. Thinking it through with drafts and sketches takes a few weeks. Then I copy-paste a ./drafts/stub.html file, and copy-paste the elements that looks like what I'm trying to achieve the most there. Then I maul it into an actual code for the page. Then I write the text that has already been formed in my head, then I edit, and then I edit again, end the next morning I edit the last time. Then I put it into ./pages, fill in the index.html and the rss. Then I upload it to the hoster. That's it.
Some of these things can be automated. There's absolutely no need to deploy things manually. Unfortunately, the automateable things take the least amount of time. Sketching and editing take maybe 90% of it, and the programming takes the 90% of the remaining 10%.
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FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.
Just to tack on with some more typographic constructive criticism (although I think the font size looks fine on my laptop), you should definitely increase the line-height of the paragraphs.
Yes, indeed. Thank you!
I tried spacing it a bit just not, it does look better this way.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
FYI your font-size is uncomfortably huge, I can see maybe 25 lines of text on my desktop screen. It feels like I should step backward a meter or two.
And on the other hand, I'm running a 12" notebook at 1080p with no scaling, and I find the text to be exactly the right size. If anything, I'm tempted to zoom in a notch or two. Zooming on the web is a critical feature to me. I find pages all the time with nearly unreadably small text, and occasionally with text too large for me. Firefox remembers zoom levels for me, so I only have to adjust once per site, usually. T…
think you could make yourself happy, by selecting a screen & scaling that allows default sizes to be readable. If I browsed from a Blackberry on a selfie stick, the onus wouldn't be on the developer to make me happy.