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-cloud storage -data costs (cell phone, broadband) -hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.)

• lucb1e 7y ago
  > -hosting (became free in last couple of years thanks to Netlify, GH pages etc.) Uh, GitHub really wasn't the first to offer free hosting, and it's definitely not something of the "last couple of years". Geocities has been doing that since 1995 and I don't know if they were the first. Moreover, GH Pages is super limited, others allow you to run dynamic scripts (PHP being the most popular). I never heard of Netlify but Wikipedia tells me it's standard shared hosting for static content. As for "cloud" storage, that's getting cheaper in the sense that they are reducing profit margins (getting closer to charging the actual cost price), but if you roll your own, you can still do it for less than what the cheapest third party charges. And those costs are also dropping year over year. With both effects combined, I guess it's dropping quite rapidly, but for two separate reasons and not because of advances in hard drive tech.
  • zer0tonin 7y ago
    No, netlify is basically a fancy-ish github pages.
    • lucb1e 7y ago
      So... static shared web hosting? Or does GitHub Pages do something I don't know about?
      • zer0tonin 7y ago
        It's static shared web hosting, with a few cool features like a built-in CI, server-side analytics and serverless functions. They also advertise worldwide high availability.