One thing I really dislike, is the amount people think hosting data is hard.
People talk about needing dozens of cores or gigs of ram to host a database or a website. They get impressed by projects where someone runs a website from an Apple ][ or a pi0.
We, as free software advocates, need to remind people that the charger for a Macbook Pro is enough to run a website, not the Macbook Pro
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hairylarry
in reply to silverwizard • • •One of the reason I like static websites is because of the low overhead on the server.
Also you don't have to back up the website because it's already on your computer. Just backup your computer.
And because of this static websites are very portable and can even be run on free hosts. Just be sure to use your own domain so when the free host goes squirelly you can move.
Blogs, audio, video, full websites all have static host solutions.
#static #websites #ownyourplatform
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in reply to hairylarry • • •Use your raspberry pi or your old system and use duck dns if you don't have a static ip.
Hosting is not expensive and can be done on the $10/year plan, just paying for your domain name.
Own Your own platform. Everything else goes away or gets enshittified.
Except SDF
sdf.org
And the Internet Archive
archive.org
They did go away for a few days at the end of last year.
Soon to be a blog post using my own program, Plain Text Blog.
Thanks
SDF Public Access UNIX System - Free Shell Account and Shell Access
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in reply to hairylarry • • •Here it is.
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Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to silverwizard • •@silverwizard Remember in the 90s when there was no internet at all because powerful enough computers hadn't been invented yet? ๐
Seriously though, I ran my first "server" on a Pentium laptop over a dial-up connection.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •@silverwizard That said, I fully understand how the average person* could not be bothered to figure out how to do it. The technology industry has done a great job of reducing all their offerings into little magic black boxes that everyone's afraid to look inside of for fear that they'll break them.
* The average person will never read this post because the fedi is too complicated and scary.
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in reply to silverwizard • • •One thing I want to focus on is internal - not just internal messaging. I hate all the times I see a youtuber show off their Battlestation. Or when someone builds a handheld device with a full on Raspberry Pi.
Though the ESP32 has been good for this.
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