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Cool idea, but I don't think you should focus on static files. People rarely spin up a server for that these days.
by mmarian 5mo ago
Cool idea, but I don't think you should focus on static files. People rarely spin up a server for that these days.
- dwedge 5mo agoI did last week (converted ghost to static) and was half wondering if some self contained binary wouldn't be faster so I feel like this was made for me, but I accept I'm not the typical user
- arcanemachiner 5mo agoYou just helped to dredge up a memory, which brought me back to this fascinating project: https://redbean.dev https://redbean.dev If this piques your interest, make sure to check out the portable C library used to create it, which is also fascinating: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
- rpdillon 5mo agoThese projects are fascinating, and I referenced them in a nearby comment about static hosting from archives. I need to try the latest versions to see how they work at higher scale (more data in the archive).
- mmarian 5mo agoWhy not let Clouflare/GitHub/etc do it for you? Free, and you don't have to worry about security and availability.
- dwedge 5mo agoBecause handing off control of a static site to a company that already controls XX% of the Internet for "security" goes against everything I believe in. And availability, cloudflare and github?
- lmc 5mo agoDepends on the domain. There's a bunch of sciences using large datasets served up efficiently using static file formats, e.g., https://zarr.dev/ https://zarr.dev/ and https://parquet.apache.org/ https://parquet.apache.org/
- mmarian 5mo agoAdmit I'm not familiar with that domain. But don't people use managed services even there? In my job we host parquet files on S3.
- lmc 5mo agoTrue, we use S3 a lot too. But it's interesting to think of alternatives like this project, e.g., for when we don't have the setup for a full on block storage service.
- Fordec 5mo agoI did it yesterday.
- romania1 5mo agohow did you come to this conclusion ?