• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    On one hand I have my personal firstname-lastname-dot-com I’m still hosting for years. I’m not a webdev but WordPress is awfully bloated and everything else needs a touch of webdev skills.

    So it’s been at “coming soon I’m working on it welcome to sample example theme page” for years, but hey it’s indexing well based on age alone!

    The other is a fun clever one I route through cloudflare to access all my home server stuff via HTTPS over TailScale. Never have to expose any ports to the big scary world wide web. :p

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I still have a number of domains that I registered aspirationally for projects I never really started.

  • ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    i did recently go through and turn off auto renewal on a few. I still have several projects i never launched though that I’m holding out hope for… someday

  • doughless@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I let one of mine expire a few years ago. Finally decided I wanted to try to register it again, but a squatter is now sitting on it asking for something like $10k $3.6k.

    Edit: just double-checked, they lowered the price to only $3595!

    • Opisek@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      And that’s why I’ll never give up my domain. Those vultures will immediately snap it.

  • RacerX@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Wanted to start a blog about my weight loss journey. Lost the weight and never started the blog. Still paying for the domain 7 years later.

    Only thing left to do is gain the weight back so I can try again!

  • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    You know what’s worse? Starting a successful one that makes a whole ass salary and then having google updates smack it the f out.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Just buy it for ten years. You’re ultimately saving money and it’ll give you more time to incubate your dream!

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    On the flip side my husband has held on to the domain he got for 22 YEARS., and never did anything with it. We finally got our emails up and running with it last week. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

    • Fetus@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Out of curiosity; who is providing the mail service? Or are you self-hosting? Trying to organise mine, hoping I can get it done maybe 19 years quicker.

      • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I use Hover. They’re based in Canada and I’ve been using them for years for my business domain and email. Was an easy choice for personal too. Every time I’ve had to call the tech support they have fixed the problem super fast, did extra stuff, and were super lovely. $20 a year for a small mailbox each, which is more than enough for us.

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        4 months ago

        I self host email. Email is easy. I went a tad overboard with database configuration, a configuration/password change program, a few virtual hosts so I can renew six different names, but a single domain on a Linux box (any flavour) is easy

        It makes it easy to make a bespoke email address for every entity you interact with, or show them the respect they deserve by giving your valid email spam@your.domain.tld

        It is a bit of a hobby though. You need to keep up with email security if you want to send to anyone.

      • shadshack@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        I just set my domain email up with Zoho. Was easy enough and they have a free option. Although I pay $1.25/mo per user for two users, just to get a little extra storage space and be able to use SMTP and ActiveSync to send email from my servers for notifications and use a different mobile app than their default one.

  • VonKeebler@ttrpg.network
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    4 months ago

    CatBagz.com is in this photograph and I don’t like it.

    What, no one really wants to purchase cat faced bags from a guy on the internet that doesn’t like cats all that much and doesn’t use bags all that much and can’t social media and mostly just wants to stop being a fucking company shill but no I’m so fucking good at it that’s my job and my life forever.

    Fuck you, dreams. I’m taking cat bags to my fucking grave.

    At least my red bubble stickers sell.

  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Now think, patents are similar things but for with more money. And imagine if someone else had similar idea and made slightly similar website you go sue them coz you had the idea first.

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    ok genuine question from someone who wants to make a website but has no experience in it other than a HTML class and doesn’t want to resort to a cushy GUI based website maker, How do I make a website? I’m not talking about the HTML, I got that part down. I’m talking about how do I actually get a domain and host? I tried doing it and got like a $5 domain, but the host was like $30 for a year which was too much for me and couldn’t figure out how to selfhost with my extremely limited knowledge. Is that just what it costs to have a website or is there an easier way?

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Self host isn’t that bad. Say you have a raspberry pi. Install linux on the pi (basically the only thing to do with it), then google how to set up a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, Mysql, Php/python). Once you’ve followed all the steps they list then now you have a web server. To get it out on the internet log into your router and port forward for HTTP and now anyone can see that glorious Apache default web page.

      Then for a domain just find the first domain register and buy the domain from them. Once you own a domain point it towards your IP address (just google what is my IP) and you’re set.

      Your web page is now on the internet and anyone can type a nice name to get to your page. Anyone can also use any exploits then find so you have to make sure you’re keeping up updating your devices. And every port you forward is an intrusion point into your network should someone want to hack you.

      • SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Anyone can also use any exploits then find so you have to make sure you’re keeping up updating your devices. And every port you forward is an intrusion point into your network should someone want to hack you.

        This is the part that scares the shit out of me. I bought a domain with the intention of making a little web 1.0 website for fun and to learn, but I have no real idea what I’m doing and the security risk makes it a non-starter :(

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 months ago

          If you’re hosting a basic web 1.0 website you’re gonna be pretty safe. Just install Apache and call it a day. As long as there’s no exploits in apache and you only port forward for basic HTTP theres very little to go wrong. Plus realistically, whos gonna want to hack your site?

    • pm_me_your_quackers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      For hosting check out something like github pages. There several other free ones as well, but pages looks like the easiest to set up. If you want something more robust, you could look into Netlify or Vercel, but that’s gonna require a little more know-how.

    • thirteene@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      First off, it’s important to understand Responsive Design responsive design and why you shouldn’t be writing your own css these days as a newbie. Bootstrap is a public css doc with a lot of those problems pre-solved, so you might want to look up some of their tooling.

      As far as a website: you’ll need a domain name, you can get some for free, but they usually have short renewals otherwise this is unavoidable.

      You can pay for “shared hosting” at any of the major vendors like blue host or GoDaddy and get apache or aspx file hosting for like you said $X0/year.

      You can use an s3 static website for ~free. Creating a DNS hosted zone is $.50. but you can create an s3 bucket (think flash drive in the cloud) store a threshold of free documents, and publish them as a website all within the free tier of AWS. This has some technical background and AWS can get expensive of you make mistakes (although this shouldn’t scale much unless you upload a thousands ton of files repeatedly)

      Alternatively you can use GitHub pages . Git is a tool used by developers to share and edit code, they let you publish free HTML as well, but requires learning git or figuring out a tool with a UI like source tree. I don’t think you can use custom domains with this though.

      Although if you have any interest in tech, you can also create a free nginx docker container through a lot of services like ecs, but you can also self host in a “sandbox”. Docker creates a mini virtual machine with all of the code required to run self contained. Nginx let’s you create HTML docker containers by mounting a directory. ~ docker start nginx /website/directory And it just runs self contained.

    • CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It depends on how fancy of a website you are trying to make. But check out something like Hugo or Jekyll. I haven’t used Jekyll personally but have used Hugo. There are plenty of templates to get you started depending the type of content you are planning on putting up.

      And the best part is you can host the site for free on GitHub or Gitlab, so the domain name is the only cost.