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
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.
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 $15/year plan, just paying for your domain name.
Own Your own platform. Everything else goes away or gets enshittified.
Except SDF
And the Internet Archive
The Archive 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
Here it is.
https://hairylarry.rocks/writes/permalink.php?fname=Static_Websites.txt
Thanks to Silver Wizard for inspiring this post.
https://gamerplus.org/deck/@silverwizard@convenient.email/114313684938373475
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