not you fucking technical dorks who already have websites i know you want to learn web design already
i think there's a market of folks like artists/casual observers or people who a) want a cool custom website for b) not that much c) and don't want to worry about hosting it that much
on-prem webhosting isn't something I hear of that much these days full stop. Depends what sort of stuff you mean I guess. Tbh if it's just a pile of HTML and some JS/CSS/Images I don't even entertain the idea of a "server" anymore (I.e. installing an OS and nginx etc). GitHub Pages, or S3 & CloudFront usually work out to be basically-free.
When PHP/Python get involved, things get a bit more interesting though and I suppose there might well be call for that stuff (CMS/blog/eCommerce type stuff) in the community.
@ret honestly, maybe hosting a gitlab that is exclusively for hosting pages might work, actually? i keep worrying that shit is going to disappear on gitlab because their new policy is that if you're not active they'll kill your site
Mmm. I'd give S3 & CloudFront a look personally. It's a really flexible combination for static content. The perpetual free tier on CloudFront is 10M HTTP/S requests & 1TB of data transfer out to the internet per month. SSL is integrated & free too. Unless you're talking mega, mega traffic it shouldn't cost you a penny.
sure, it's nice to avoid them if you can. I'm a bit of an AWS shill because I use it for work so much and it's just the thing I'm good at. It's definitely far from the *only* way though!
@ret Can a GitLab instance auto-deploy pages like GitHub? If yes that would be a neat way. But ideally the pages should be easily editable/updatable by users who don't know git. Or they could learn git
@silverwizard that's not a bad idea! i like projects like https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ that do stuff on energy efficient raspberry pis, i might follow their server model and do stuff on arm servers
I want to make a tool that collates your art uploaded from different sources and makes a statically generated gallery website from it. Tags it appropriately using data imported from e6 or wherever, links to all the pics posted on you 3rd party galleries. Does activitypub/fedi and crossposting for you
my biggest problem was where to host the weird lewd shit so you don’t become overwhelmed with legal paperwork. Ideally the user takes that responsibility, not the programmer
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•i think there's a market of folks like artists/casual observers or people who
a) want a cool custom website for
b) not that much
c) and don't want to worry about hosting it that much
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d) i can do this for pretty cheap and ez idk
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•When PHP/Python get involved, things get a bit more interesting though and I suppose there might well be call for that stuff (CMS/blog/eCommerce type stuff) in the community.
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•Ret the Folf
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•Can a GitLab instance auto-deploy pages like GitHub? If yes that would be a neat way. But ideally the pages should be easily editable/updatable by users who don't know git. Or they could learn git
taco, bird/cat :verified420:
•could also host a frontend that works as a cms for these github pages sites as a service to offer
something like https://github.com/decaporg/decap-cms
GitHub - decaporg/decap-cms: A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators
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