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I sort of did this the other day, I've got an idea, I think it's a good one, but it's inchoate. I got a domain name (.live because it was on sale! $6.99!) an
by carapace 6y ago
I sort of did this the other day, I've got an idea, I think it's a good one, but it's inchoate. I got a domain name (.live because it was on sale! $6.99!) and spun up a $5/month VM on digital ocean, running Caddy server (https FTW!) to present a bare landing page with a little animated network eyecandy.
The point is, it's so motivating! I feel like a real participant now! I'm on the Internet y'all!
- robertlagrant 6y agoIf you sign up for a free Cloudflare account you get HTTPS, and you can point it at a Github Pages page for FREEEEE :-)
- carapace 6y agoCheers! Thanks for the tip. They also let you serve a static site over IPFS from your domain with a DNSlink record, also for free. :-)
- stOneskull 6y agothere's a lot of value for $5 though. many, many things you can do with an ubuntu droplet. digital ocean has excellent tutorials for a lot of them too. it's fun.
- carapace 6y agoYeah, this. :-)
- carapace 6y agoI didn't read the article before posting above. (ORT: Only Read Title.) FWIW I think the article is stupid now that I've read it. "Ignore the bird, follow the river."
- loltyler1 6y agoDeploying to Heroku for free is ... well ... free. And as you're opinion also seems to be: Domain names hardly matter (and won't be around forever).
- carapace 6y agos/you're/your/ Heroku is a sucker machine.
- srathi 6y agoSave $5 as well and host it on a Github repo and attach it to Netlify!