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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 21:36:08 JST silverwizard

   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 (hairylarry@gamerplus.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:01:16 JST hairylarry

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     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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     hairylarry (hairylarry@gamerplus.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:01:17 JST hairylarry

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     @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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     hairylarry (hairylarry@gamerplus.org)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:01:17 JST hairylarry

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     @silverwizard

     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

     https://sdf.org

     And the Internet Archive

     https://archive.org

     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

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:12:42 JST me

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     @silverwizard Remember in the 90s when there was no internet at all because powerful enough computers hadn't been invented yet? 🙃

     Seriously though, I ran my first "server" on a Pentium laptop over a dial-up connection.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:12:55 JST silverwizard

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     @me See the web didn't exist on the Apple ][ because we couldn't build clusters. How would we even run PHP without kubernetes?!
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 23:13:12 JST silverwizard

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     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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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:14:06 JST me

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     @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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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:14:20 JST silverwizard

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     @me Oh it makes sense. Everyone knows the world is broken but few know how intentionally it is
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     DHeadshot's Alt (ddlyh@topspicy.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 06:28:04 JST DHeadshot's Alt

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     @silverwizard The problem is not the amount of compute but the amount of configuration to lead to the compute...

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 06:28:27 JST silverwizard

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     @ddlyh but I see so many people getting into FOSS who feel they need large server to host things! Even people who know better about slim websites
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     🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 (zdl@gamerplus.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 21:40:22 JST 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

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     @silverwizard They landed on the moon with a computer that had less computing horsepower than that charger you mention.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 21:40:49 JST silverwizard

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     @ZDL yep! they suuuuure did! This is objectively funny, and one day I wanna build a server from a mac charger, but also - daaaaaaaaaaamnit