#indieweb 2025-02-02

2025-02-02 UTC
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Lars-Christian Yeah, you're not wrong about there being a specific app for anything these days.
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Lars-Christian I've been using spreadsheets forever, and now text files in recent years. So almost all of my data is stored in text or csv files. Use very few "specific use case apps".
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bossy Any way to host a mega basic website extremely cheaply?
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bossy I expect very little traffic and have my own domain
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doesnm Github Pages maybe?
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bossy Can I use my own domain with that?
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[Murray] I'd also recommend Netlify. Free tier allows you to configure your own domain (even host it with them, if you want), drag'n'drop uploads or Git integration (e.g. via GitHub), and a pretty solid amount of bandwidth/storage etc.
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[Murray] Plus they've recently introduced price locks, so you can guarantee that you will never get charged, even if your traffic suddenly spikes (or do the opposite, if you're financially able; point is the control is yours)
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[KevinMarks] You can use your own domain with github pages. It may be easier to create an organisation for it. See https://github.com/indieweb/blank-gh-site for instructions
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Loqi [preview] [indieweb] blank-gh-site: Setup a simple new indieweb site on a domain name in mere minutes with this project.
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doesnm one question
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doesnm bossy: do you have any dynamic or your site is just files?
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doesnm [Murray]: github pages have same features
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[Murray] Yep, though I personally find some of the additional complexity with GitHub (e.g. what KevinMarks said about domains) to be less than user friendly. As you say, Netlify has similar/same options, but a different UI/UX, so it might be preferable. Always good to consider options 🙂
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[KevinMarks] For example, I made https://github.com/orgs/ceophie/repositories for my dog's site http://Ceophie.com as its less fiddly than managing another repo under mine.
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[tantek] What is GitHub static pages?
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Loqi GitHub Pages (aka gh-pages) is a static content hosting service offered by GitHub where you can host static sites https://indieweb.org/GitHub_static_pages
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[tantek] What is netlify?
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Loqi Netlify is a CDN/static hosting provider with integrated build service, useful for static site generators https://indieweb.org/Netlify
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[tantek] More there ^
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[tantek] [Murray] the price locks thing sounds pretty cool. Can you add it to the page? Currently there's a criticism about an expected $100k bill!
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[Murray] [tantek] I already did, a month or so ago. I've added it directly below that criticism. Happy to reorder or something, but I didn't want to erase existing content (or remove valid prior critique)
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[Murray] I guess perhaps the original critiscism could be ~struck out~ or something?
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bossy Just static stuff
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[tantek] [Murray] I think it's ok to move it to a "resolved" subsection and note the dates it was added and resolved. Strike through is less readable and can be ambiguous as to why it was struck thru
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[tantek] Also it demonstrates good progress on behalf of the service when complaints and criticisms are resolved
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vinceaggrippino @bossy I'm using GitHub Pages for my site. It's a static site with very low traffic. I don't think there's any cost for GitHub Pages no matter how much traffic I get, but I'm not absolutely certain of that. https://aggrippino.com and https://github.com/VAggrippino/vaggrippino.github.io
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vinceaggrippino [edit] @bossy I'm using GitHub Pages for my site. It's a static site with very low traffic. I don't think there's any cost for GitHub Pages no matter how much traffic I get, but I'm not absolutely certain of that. https://aggrippino.com and https://github.com/VAggrippino/vaggrippino.github.io
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[Murray] [tantek] done 🙂
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[tantek] [Murray]++ looks great!
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Loqi [Murray] has 4 karma in this channel over the last year (9 in all channels)
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GWG I'm looking to create a directory style listing on a page. Trying to decide on how it should look. Anyone have some good examples that might inspire me?
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GWG So far all my pages like this have been bulleted.
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[KevinMarks] Bullets can work well if they're category markers, otherwise they can look a bit repetitive, if there's no need to scan to the next heading.
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GWG [KevinMarks]: Let's say I make a list on my site of people to follow, for example?
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osteophage Like a blogroll?
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GWG That's only one usage
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GWG I wanted to make a project list also
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GWG I'm only talking about visual design
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GWG Everything else I can handle
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adar Hi, I wonder if you could recommend affordable wordpress hosting for a simple indieweb blog. The most affrordable wordpress hosting I can find is $2.50 a month from interserver.net. Does anyone have experience of using interserver.net?
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Bubblegumdrop I don't think you're gonna beat the price of $2.50 a month
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[Joe_Crawford] I’m not sure what the cost would be for Pikapods for WordPress. Pretty cheap but I believe price might creep up if you have a lot of content. That’s pure speculation.
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adar thanks, looks like pikapods would be £1.56 per month for the basic tier. It's not clear what bandwidth the basic tier offers. I'll check it out. 5 bucks welcom credit!
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adar thanks, looks like pikapods would be £1.56 per month for the basic tier. It's not clear what bandwidth the basic tier offers. I'll check it out. 5 bucks welcom credit!
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adar test
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[Joe_Crawford] I use it for linkding bookmarking and it’s a few (3? Can’t remember right now) US dollars a month.
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[aciccarello] I got tired of trying to remember what ice cream flavors I liked a chain and so I decided to start a list that I could share on my site.
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[aciccarello] https://www.ciccarello.me/posts/2025/02/02/handels-ice-cream/
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gRegor Ooh, I didn't realize they were nationwide. It's been ages but used to go there when I lived in Indianapolis. Time to add that to my list 😋
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