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Yea, my projects are still on there. But it's not going to stay there. It's just there because I've been too busy to investigate alternatives and move. But I wi

Yea, my projects are still on there. But it's not going to stay there. It's just there because I've been too busy to investigate alternatives and move. But I will in a week or three.

rafaelvasco 8y ago
Why move though ? Just curious.
- nickthemagicman 8y ago
  This is my question. There's been no changes. It's still a great platform. Is it that guaranteed that Microsoft is going to mess it up?
  - dingo_bat 8y ago
    Software developers are human too. Every decision need not be rational.
- peterburkimsher 8y ago
  I don't know if I'll move yet. Since 2006 or so, I've maintained a personal website for code/résumé, etc. At first it was hosted on http://peterburk.free.fr http://peterburk.free.fr, my parents' ISP. That was fine until I no longer lived with them, and I can't trust that it'll always be available. Also, I wanted a .com subdomain instead of a .fr domain. So in 2011, I moved to http://peterburk.appspot.com http://peterburk.appspot.com on Google App Engine. No problem, until I moved to China in 2013. All Google services are blocked there, including my page. So I migrated to http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com (Red Hat OpenShift). I didn't like the mandatory dash in the subdomain, so I also set up http://peterburk.tumblr.com http://peterburk.tumblr.com to redirect. RHCloud supported PHP, so I could finally run WordPress. Then RHCloud changed to being paid-only, so in 2015 I moved to https://peterburk.github.com https://peterburk.github.com and couldn't use PHP again. Now I code everything in client-side JavaScript and static HTML. More recently, Github removed the .com subdomain service, so my Chinese-learning side project is https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io and that confuses some users. If something happens to Github, I might try to hop to heroku, but http://peterburk.herokuapp.com http://peterburk.herokuapp.com is pretty long to type. What do other people do for ad-free hosting? I think most sites pay for AWS, but I can't have a credit card because I'm a foreigner. The design of my site is very basic, because I've had to re-write it 4 times already, typically every 2 years. I choose technologies based on the platform features, so I did know all about GAE, but now I'm more familiar with Git. My loyalty isn't to the code management tool (this is for side projects, not a business that would need collaboration with colleagues), I just move to wherever is free/not blocked by China/has an easy-to-remember domain name.
  - diroussel 8y ago
    I've started using React-static on netlify. Works well, and will auto deploy on commit to GitHub.
  - marketgod 8y ago
    Buy your own domain. It's worth the investment in your brand.
  - foo101 8y ago
    > What do other people do for ad-free hosting? By your own domain a $5/month VPS and host your apps just the way you like it. Just 10 years ago, geeks like us used to take pride in buying domain and creating a personal presence with one's domain name. Don't people do that anymore? I find this trend of looking for free hosting services a bit disturbing. Because you know the cliche that when you are not paying for a service, you are the product. Even if you do not want to buy a $5/month VPS, please buy the domain. Costs less than $1/month (more like $10/year) and point the domain to your favorite free hosting service with CNAME entries. GitHub and Heroku support such custom domains with CNAME entries.

Yea, my projects are still on there. But it's not going to stay there. It's just there because I've been too busy to investigate alternatives and move. But I will in a week or three.

rafaelvasco 8y ago

Why move though ? Just curious.

nickthemagicman 8y ago
This is my question. There's been no changes. It's still a great platform. Is it that guaranteed that Microsoft is going to mess it up?
- dingo_bat 8y ago
  Software developers are human too. Every decision need not be rational.
peterburkimsher 8y ago
I don't know if I'll move yet. Since 2006 or so, I've maintained a personal website for code/résumé, etc. At first it was hosted on http://peterburk.free.fr http://peterburk.free.fr, my parents' ISP. That was fine until I no longer lived with them, and I can't trust that it'll always be available. Also, I wanted a .com subdomain instead of a .fr domain. So in 2011, I moved to http://peterburk.appspot.com http://peterburk.appspot.com on Google App Engine. No problem, until I moved to China in 2013. All Google services are blocked there, including my page. So I migrated to http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com (Red Hat OpenShift). I didn't like the mandatory dash in the subdomain, so I also set up http://peterburk.tumblr.com http://peterburk.tumblr.com to redirect. RHCloud supported PHP, so I could finally run WordPress. Then RHCloud changed to being paid-only, so in 2015 I moved to https://peterburk.github.com https://peterburk.github.com and couldn't use PHP again. Now I code everything in client-side JavaScript and static HTML. More recently, Github removed the .com subdomain service, so my Chinese-learning side project is https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io and that confuses some users. If something happens to Github, I might try to hop to heroku, but http://peterburk.herokuapp.com http://peterburk.herokuapp.com is pretty long to type. What do other people do for ad-free hosting? I think most sites pay for AWS, but I can't have a credit card because I'm a foreigner. The design of my site is very basic, because I've had to re-write it 4 times already, typically every 2 years. I choose technologies based on the platform features, so I did know all about GAE, but now I'm more familiar with Git. My loyalty isn't to the code management tool (this is for side projects, not a business that would need collaboration with colleagues), I just move to wherever is free/not blocked by China/has an easy-to-remember domain name.
- diroussel 8y ago
  I've started using React-static on netlify. Works well, and will auto deploy on commit to GitHub.
- marketgod 8y ago
  Buy your own domain. It's worth the investment in your brand.
- foo101 8y ago
  > What do other people do for ad-free hosting? By your own domain a $5/month VPS and host your apps just the way you like it. Just 10 years ago, geeks like us used to take pride in buying domain and creating a personal presence with one's domain name. Don't people do that anymore? I find this trend of looking for free hosting services a bit disturbing. Because you know the cliche that when you are not paying for a service, you are the product. Even if you do not want to buy a $5/month VPS, please buy the domain. Costs less than $1/month (more like $10/year) and point the domain to your favorite free hosting service with CNAME entries. GitHub and Heroku support such custom domains with CNAME entries.