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Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags an

Haha, wow. It's like going to a civil war reenactment where everyone adhere strictly to period customs and vernacular. Unfortunately they forgot center tags and to capitalize all of their HTML. I was going to say it's missing a table-based layout, but then I recalled that the height of geocities' popularity was earlier than I remember seeing table-based layouts everywhere. It's really not very assuring when they state on the front page that they "hope" they can get enough money each month so they can pay the server bills.

kyledrake 13y ago
The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.
- Simucal 13y ago
  Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?
  - zhemao 13y ago
    It's an option you can choose at compilation time, I believe.
    - eclipticplane 13y ago
      It's a configuration option, actually [1]. No need to recompile. If anyone isn't using it, try it out! [1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile
  - kyledrake 13y ago
    https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files/nginx.conf https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files... https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files/neocities https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files...
- stinky613 13y ago
  That wasn't really my point. It doesn't inspire confidence when the host says "hey! put your stuff here! I'm not sure that I can pay the bills each month but I sure hope we can. Oh--and I have no idea how this will scale." It's all understandable. But even if it's free and even if my content is stupid, I'd still feel a little uncomfortable because of how much doubt the owner expresses over the viability of the service.
  - zaius 13y ago
    Really, that's what all startups are doing. At least he's being honest about it.
  - kyledrake 13y ago
    Fair. Sorry about that. I have a lot of experience scaling web applications, I've been doing this for over 14 years. I should probably highlight that somewhere. I've already gotten enough donations today to run the server as-is for 8 months! I also found a sweet deal with a reliable dedicated provider via a tip that will cost substantially less than my intial estimates.
RBerenguel 13y ago
And <blink>!
- angersock 13y ago
  http://fredericiana.com/2012/11/04/html5-blink-tag/ http://fredericiana.com/2012/11/04/html5-blink-tag/
  - RBerenguel 13y ago
    The original blink was way cooler (I read the story a long ago... Chrome should have this kind of "easter eggs")

kyledrake 13y ago

The site will very easily pay for itself with donations. It's not that expensive to serve static HTML, especially when you are using Nginx and sendfile.

Simucal 13y ago
Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?
- zhemao 13y ago
  It's an option you can choose at compilation time, I believe.
  - eclipticplane 13y ago
    It's a configuration option, actually [1]. No need to recompile. If anyone isn't using it, try it out! [1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile
- kyledrake 13y ago
  https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files/nginx.conf https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files... https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files/neocities https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web/blob/master/files...
stinky613 13y ago
That wasn't really my point. It doesn't inspire confidence when the host says "hey! put your stuff here! I'm not sure that I can pay the bills each month but I sure hope we can. Oh--and I have no idea how this will scale." It's all understandable. But even if it's free and even if my content is stupid, I'd still feel a little uncomfortable because of how much doubt the owner expresses over the viability of the service.
- zaius 13y ago
  Really, that's what all startups are doing. At least he's being honest about it.
- kyledrake 13y ago
  Fair. Sorry about that. I have a lot of experience scaling web applications, I've been doing this for over 14 years. I should probably highlight that somewhere. I've already gotten enough donations today to run the server as-is for 8 months! I also found a sweet deal with a reliable dedicated provider via a tip that will cost substantially less than my intial estimates.

RBerenguel 13y ago

And <blink>!

angersock 13y ago
http://fredericiana.com/2012/11/04/html5-blink-tag/ http://fredericiana.com/2012/11/04/html5-blink-tag/
- RBerenguel 13y ago
  The original blink was way cooler (I read the story a long ago... Chrome should have this kind of "easter eggs")