How to Build a Low-Tech Website

Post by user111233 » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #112

protonfish wrote: post #91

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Even if it did save bandwidth, that does not equal significant energy savings. And if it did, there are better ways to save. For example, looking at their response headers I see the image cache control expires after a day, plus has validation caching. This could be significantly improved. First, get rid of the `etag`, `expires`, and `last-modified` headers and go with expiration caching only. Increase the `max-age` f…

> First, get rid of the `etag`, `expires`, and `last-modified` headers and go with expiration caching only. Increase the `max-age` from one day (86400) to one year (31536000). Since it's a statically generated website, I'd favor never expiring the cache, and using cache-busting hashes instead. That way the cache is only emptied when the file actually changes.

Post by bikamonki » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:10 AM UTC

Post by qwerty456127 » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 3:31 AM UTC

user111233 wrote: post #164

qwerty456127 wrote: post #142

> Default typeface I adore this for whatever low or high tech. As for me all this web-font stuff seems a huge piece of BS (except for rare cases when a website is meant to be more of a piece of art than serving a practical function or when you need to use an exotic language letters of which are rare to be found in the standard fonts on clients' computers) and I just block external fonts all the time.

For developers it always seems like a good idea to use the system defaults but then you push it out to users and find out they all have insane defaults that work like crap. I had someone complaining to me that my mailto: link doesn't work but actually its just they had the wrong mail client set as default on their system.

Post by manigandham » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 5:32 AM UTC

romaniv wrote: post #100

jtms wrote: post #81

I am going to guess they are getting a massive surge of traffic about now and yet the site still renders in a fraction of the time it takes most "modern" web apps or even just static content sites - this is how it should be.

Honestly, I'm not even sure what modern website are doing when they generate pages. I've had highly dynamic PHP/MySQL websites running on crap hardware, and it was trivial to attain .03 second page generation time. Didn't even need fancy caching, just some common-sense SQL optimizations.

Post by adrianN » Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 7:40 AM UTC

woah wrote: post #137

l_t wrote: post #106

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I think the article hits on the key problem: "Less than 100% reliability is essential for the sustainability of an off-the-grid solar system." IMO, this can only become mainstream once there is no longer an expectation of "100%" uptime for websites in general. It's far-fetched, but I can imagine it becoming mainstream if mesh networking becomes popular, or if the Internet were to become a widely self-hosted platform…

Having been in the “mesh” space for years, there’s a ton of this techno-primitivism fantasy floating around. The reality is that people want to access the internet and they want it to work well. This article is a perfect example. This solar powered server which does not have 100% uptime for artistic reasons is probably sitting in someone’s kitchen next to a refrigerator which uses many times as much power and definit…