Re:The Indie Web Is Dead, Long Live the Indie Web
by JohnFen on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:25PM
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For $5/mo, you can have your site professionally hosted with quotas high enough to cover the needs of the vast majority of people. If you get into the habit of editing your site on a "real copy" on your machine at home, and copy it from there to the professionally hosted site, you're still very resistant to being deplatformed. You just hire a different host, upload your real copy there, and change where your domain name points.
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Re:The Indie Web Is Dead, Long Live the Indie Web
by chrismorgan on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:49PM
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But that’s nothing to do with self-hosting from home; that’s just regular hosting with mirroring (which is generally a good practice anyway, and nigh-ubiquitous among users of static site generators), or with the machines-as-cattle philosophy (as distinct from machines-as-pets).
Re:The Indie Web Is Dead, Long Live the Indie Web
by JohnFen on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:03AM
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True, I was just trying to point out that running your own independent website is possible even if your home situation makes it unrealistic. I think the "indie web" is important, and nobody who is interested should be discouraged if they can't host at home. There are ways to do it even if you have terrible internet service or a very restrictive ISP.