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I couldn't agree more. The price to pay for using sometimes unusual, old or simply less popular software or hardware configurations is that if you encounter a p
by squarefoot 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. The price to pay for using sometimes unusual, old or simply less popular software or hardware configurations is that if you encounter a problem, good luck finding someone who solved it and published the solution, and that solution wasn't deleted along with that Geocities page hosting it.
I have some more stringent issues to solve by now (health, relocation, etc) but plan to put online a small home hosted static technical oriented site where I record any interesting findings that might be useful to others. For that I plan to use what broadband connection I will have available plus DuckDNS to solve the inevitable dynamic IP issue. The main problem that might arise could be letting search engines crawlers index the page as I believe they might want to skip those hosted on home broadband connections.
- justinlloyd 4y agoI do not know if the last statement is true, whether search engines will index your home server, I have no evidence either way. It is an interesting thought. One of the things I had, at a time, was a small publically available VPS that hosted the static, text content, which was small, that cost me around $5/month at the time, but all the larger video files I had, I hosted on my home server over my broadband connection and merely linked to them from my public VPS. So the issue of indexing never really came up. That said, I run two much larger servers, one in the UK and one in the US, for serving content. Off-topic, the servers are overkill for what I need, but they also serve the purpose of giving me a US egress and a UK egress via private VPN depending on which WiFi I connect to in my house.