Re:Run Your Own Website
by marktangotango on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:00AM
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What I’d like to see is a geocities but with: database, server side scripting, caching, memcache, and https free for limited use with a performance and availability guarantee. What would it take to get this on a massive scale?
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Y Combinator’s own Garry Tan tried it with posterious and is so far succeeding with posthaven:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Tan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
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What would it be like to make a service that lasts for 10 years? 100 years? That’s what we’re trying to build at Posthaven. We’re as sick as you are to have to switch services every few years, or worry about running your own servers and getting hacked all the time.
To do that, it’ll take a small team of engineers who quietly maintain the software like a constant gardener, quietly doing the right things over time.
That’s us.
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Re:Run Your Own Website
by roywiggins on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:30AM
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Heroku? https://www.heroku.com/free
Where would the funding come from?
Re:Run Your Own Website
by cannonedhamster on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:41AM
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Cloudfunding? It's like Kickstarter but for projects that are nearly guaranteed to die. Kind of like how patrons supported art. Most of the stuff was just workday or average, but every more and then there were gems.
Re:Run Your Own Website
by oiasdjfoiasd on Friday July 05, 2019 @11:01AM
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You mean Google Cloud and AWS?
If you're looking for a WYSIWYG website editor, you probably don't need caching/memcache, etc.