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That's because someone did the work of setting up a server for you, configuring the services, and issuing FTP credentials. That part is now a whole lot cheaper
by eli 4y ago
That's because someone did the work of setting up a server for you, configuring the services, and issuing FTP credentials. That part is now a whole lot cheaper and easier and more secure.
It doesn't get much easier than signing up for e.g. Glitch.
- fartcannon 4y agoSetting up a server is so unbelievably simple that anyone capable of writing software shouldn't blink at the task. The fact that there's a lot of blinking strikes me as profoundly funny.
- WaffleIronMaker 4y agoI mean, it isn't? Even the simple matter of port forwarding assumes you have access to the router you're using, and that's a major barrier for a lot of people. I run the programming club at my high school (I'm a high schooler), and we use Github pages to host all of our stuff for this very reason. I've used some old laptops to run servers within the network, but my school doesn't want us hosting anything public, and running everything through a free tunneling service like localtunnel is possible, but it scales so much better when students can just follow some friendly instructions to host a static site themselves. It's not hard for the people with the privileges of (1) having a budget > $0 and (2) not having the adults tell you 'no' every time you want to try learn something. Am I missing something? Even hosting static content on a server seems like a layer of complexity that is frequently unnecessary for basic use-cases.
- fartcannon 4y agoYou just, as you say, follow friendly instructions. It's as easy as reading a page of a manual.
- eli 4y agoIn 1999? I mean, I did it, but I didn't think it was easy. Every single step was harder then than it is now.