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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.
by 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 agoDoes Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?
- zhemao 13y agoIt's an option you can choose at compilation time, I believe.
- eclipticplane 13y agoIt'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 agohttps://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 agoThat 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 agoReally, that's what all startups are doing. At least he's being honest about it.
- kyledrake 13y agoFair. 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.