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flandish@lemmy.world 3 days agosome folks dont want to manage a server and instead just host a static site at something dot com and move on. being an eng for well over 25 years now, i really only care to expose what i self host at home to the public through wireguard and then “locally” hit my svcs. wireguard goes down? cool. fix when i get home.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I absolutely agree, to the point where I thought you were agreeing with a different post I made. This is the way!
There are lots of free or nearly free ways to host a static site with your domain, and basically walk away from it for years at a time just fine. I wouldn’t use Cloudflare just on principal for just static site hosting, but its fine I guess. All the software forges host pages for free, and a bunch of smaller outfits like Neocities. Even a static site on a VPS is nearly zero maintenance. When was the last time there was a CVE for remote code execution that would effect a Linux VPS hosting only a static webpage via Caddy or Ngnix and key-based SSH? (I don’t actually think there has been one).
Absolutely, I use a VPN for self hosted services I can’t be bothered to secure properly and don’t need exposed to all that mess. Wireguard is amazing. I used OpenVPN for years and it was such a pain in the ass mobile. I remember when it first came out, I set it up and made a SIP VoIP call with my phone. I could toggle between WiFi and cellular networks without the audio even glitching, let alone a call dropping. That was honestly like black magic back then.