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Re:Netlify Dev by shadowoflight on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:11PM (#19617995)
I have seen those exact words to describe Netlify - it's like Geocities, but for the modern web. I have yet to try it out for myself, but I'm thinking I may use it to get a personal site up and running since I have a tendency to take the power of running my own site on my own VPS a bit too far by changing it up (and usually breaking it) frequently...
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Re:Netlify Dev by tw20190409mhbcd on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @03:27PM (#19618125)
There's also Neocities as an acceptable replacement for Geocities. It's also free, unless you want to use your own domain, which requires a $5/mo "donation" to become a Neocities supporter and unlock that and a few other features.
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Re:Netlify Dev by egeozcan on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:15PM (#19618505)
I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.
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Re:Netlify Dev by tw20190409mhbcd on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:05PM (#19620332)
The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people.

"High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI

And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.

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Re:Netlify Dev by Aeolun on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:03PM (#19620317)
If they have but a few supporters I suppose they get all the running costs out of it.
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