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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.
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> The desktop OS is a dying product. If everyone could do their work on their phones and tablets, they would. Count me out of this brave new world of tiny screens and crappy UI/UX.
Using tablets or phones doesn't necessarily mean tiny screens--although for the life of me, I can't understand why so few companies have put effort into making a phone with a UI that scales for regular screens. (I know they exist, don't sent me examples, thee point is that there are so few of them."
Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.
If you're slightly technical that should be $1/year for hosting + $10 for domain name registration.
I don't know what the best way is now, but a few years ago I set up an s3 bucket that where I basically got charged nothing because the site was I am pretty sure for a very small static site there's probably a handful of options that are basically free. One of gitpages, cloudflare pages, I think have free bandwith, not sure about vercel, or netlify.
If this were true, SquareSpace would be trading way higher than they are now, Twitter wouldn't exist, and Facebook would look a lot like MySpace. My take: people created websites back then because there was no other choice. People RUSHED into MySpace when it got hot partly because of this. Many people don't care about web culture; they only care about consuming. Just like many people don't become screenwriters or dir…
Strong disagree. People want to participate, they want to be part of a conversation. When you "consume" content on Facebook or Twitter, you can produce content and reasonably expect to get an audience - because you know there's other people there.
If you have your own personal website, you have no natural audience. If you're lucky, Google might like it and return it. But chances are, it won't thanks to SEO. And even if you do, you don't have any replies. A voice shouting into a void, signifying nothing. At that point, you need a blogging engine that allows for replies, and now you're in the world of off-the-shelf solutions. Not so far from Facebook or MySpace, which gets you your audience.
1. Keeping a public list of soon/current/recent projects forces me to keep priorities straight over long stretches of time.
2. Maintaining a monthly newsletter organizes my life into personal "sprints". It also provides a tiny community of like-minded people.
3. Essays supercharge reflections on deep questions. If you have any big ideas or strong opinions, public writing is incredible distillation.
4. Writing for fun is fun! It's a productive craft well-suited to curious/obsessive minds (much like programming).
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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.
If all you need is a static website, you can do it for under $10/year if you use AWS S3. Alternatively, Cloudflare pages is free.
But still the independent websites continue to run and stay alive. Some of them have quality content too and appear on HN many times.
Is there a community/forum/channel of these independent website owners somewhere? Would love to hang out there.
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The source code is really similar Not seeing Brian Lovin’s name in the LICENSE file in Nym either...
Looks like they've claimed Brian Lovin's work as their own, judging by this commit: https://github.com/Nym-HQ/nym/commit/3dda085064e745bd43f8b05...