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If I cared about longetivity, I would not choose either "shared hosting" or "cloud/serverless". Set up a small VPS/VM with Debian, run Apache. Yes, you will ha

by theamk 2y ago

If I cared about longetivity, I would not choose either "shared hosting" or "cloud/serverless". Set up a small VPS/VM with Debian, run Apache. Yes, you will have to do biennial OS upgrades and set up your own backups, but the main code won't have to change. Apache still makes 2.x releases, Perl still has its CPAN. And if the host goes down or disappears, there are dozens of replacements with identical functionality.

chubot 2y ago
(author here) I've had a VPS with Ubuntu/Debian since 2008, so like 16 years now ... I still use it, but not for anything I actually want to be up all the time Over time I found the "set and forget" nature of shared hosting a lot more reliable That might just be me, but I don't think so. I've noticed A TON of link rot due to "I set up a VPS, and wrote one or two good blog posts last year. But now I am doing other things, and the VPS rotted". I think it's mainly monitoring, and putting other stuff on the VPS that's unrelated to the blog For a blog, I'd use Github pages before a VPS. But as mentioned, that only handles static sites, and scripting is useful (even for blogs)