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Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by olooney »

Invictus0 wrote: post #60
cannonedhamster wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So for most people that are in the situation you describe I'd say they would probably just spin up a WordPress instance, pick a theme they like, and start posting. A static html site? Even easier. There are tons of services out there that will let you host your own content for very little money or even free. You can set up a static site on a platform like 1mb.com for next to nothing and edit the html, css, etc. To yo…

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…

There's a weird bug in human psychology where anything we can easily do ourselves is considered "easy" in an absolute sense, even if we've literally spend years or even decades acquiring the skills that make it so easy. No patch is forthcoming and the issue has been marked WONTFIX in the tracker.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by saagarjha »

okaleniuk wrote: post #10

I 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…

> I wouldn't hire myself by this resume.

I don't do hiring, but I can see your website being an item in the "plus" column if I was going to pick whether to hire you or not.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by hombre_fatal »

Invictus0 wrote: post #27

This type of post makes it to the front page pretty frequently, but I think the audience on hacker News vastly underestimates the difficulty of setting up a personal site for the general public. There is always the refrain of "but just use static HTML!", as if anyone even knows what that is, as if it's so easy to set up a domain and hosting, as if no one even wants a nicely designed site with images and JavaScript th…

I think HN even moreso underestimates how many people want to bother. Running my own blog would be just one more spinning plate for me. I have enough of those.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by pnutjam »

dvtrn wrote: post #30
pnutjam wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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 too have mostly moved on, but I still have a couple clients that use them and I maintain an adjunct account and register my domains through them. They provide an excellent service, especially for someone like the person asking this question.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by melling »

saagarjha wrote: post #66
melling wrote: post #57

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You seem to not understand what I’m asking. I have Atom, VSCode, Sublime, JetBrains, ... I know vi and Emacs. I’ve programmed websites in Perl, Python, Java, Go, ... I didn’t realize we differentiate between applications and sites these days. In 2019, I’m one person who is willing to start with a clean slate. What current tools should I choose so, as one person, I’m most productive 6 months from now, once I’ve master…

You're looking for buzzwords when the parent is trying to give you a stack that has worked worked for decades. You bringing up the "Beating the Averages" post isn't relevant.

Sure, it’s very relevant:

“Software is a very competitive business, prone to natural monopolies. A company that gets software written faster and better will, all other things being equal, put its competitors out of business. And when you're starting a startup, you feel this very keenly.”

I’m not exactly sure why what I’m asking is not clear.

One person with great tools can accomplish a lot more than a small team with average tools. Wasn’t that the reason Ruby was a much better choice than Java/JSP a decade ago? I was never allowed to chose Ruby, for example, because my company required Java.

Today, there are even more options and it’s not clear where to begin the evaluation.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by PavlovsCat »

icebraining wrote: post #55
originalvichy wrote: post #7

The title made me hope for a quite literal way to run your website: using some kind of energy harvesting (bicycle?) used to power a small computer with a web server. This is an issue that is quite simple to solve. Many podcasters (espescially Joe Rogan) like to talk about being afraid of getting removed from a platform without having your own hosting set up. Most of the controversial big names of youtube and other pl…

If you just want to distribute content, you're better off sharing bittorrent links. The problem is that those podcasters want the visibility and the ad money of those platforms. Which is valid, but not something that is solvable by self-hosting at home.

We need to transition to solutions for it though, and a "hybrid" approach would be a move in the right direction. i.e. you don't have to leave the platforms, just make your own website, too. Yeah, it's more work, but nothing good will come of just leaving it to the big players and what they come up with. To even have leverage, people can't just be completely dependent, that's a non-starter.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by _bkyr »

dwheeler wrote: post #29

At least own your domain name and be able to easily move your website content to whereever you want. I think for most people it's cheaper and more convenient to use a hosting service, and that's fine... as long as you can change hosting services. I've had my personal site ( https://dwheeler.com ) since 1999. As noted in https://dwheeler.com/aboutsite.html my site has been hosted on 4 different systems, and I'm sure t…

Yes. I've had run my own site since 2000 [link redacted] moving it around multiple times. The only thing I've really changed is moving to a static site so there's one less thing to export or import(database).

Having my own website I've worked on keeping it speedy and not reliant on any javascript.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by cameronbrown »

coldpie wrote: post #35
superkuh wrote: post #33

Yup. 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…

Mm, nah. Running a DNS server, choosing an HTTP server and keeping all the related software up to date is a lot to ask even of a techie. And that's not even getting into dynamic IP issues.

My website runs on a PaaS - effectively free and zero maintenance, and I can lift and shift to my own host at any time.

Re: Run Your Own Website

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Post by ibrault »

llao wrote: post #31
okaleniuk wrote: post #10

I 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…

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.
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