• collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    More like “Dammit, my domain auto-remewed again. Oh well, it’s only $12. I’ll cancel next year.” (It’s been 5 years.)

  • VonKeebler@ttrpg.network
    15·
    5 days 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.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
    13·
    5 days ago

    This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It’s inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet

    • VonKeebler@ttrpg.network
      8·
      5 days ago

      Is this the sticker of a hobby that you want to be part of?

      MY FUCKING WEBSITE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE CAT BAGS FOR SALE WHAT WAS I THINKING?

      Buy a God Damn Cat Bag

  • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
    241·
    6 days 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
      3·
      6 days 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
        4·
        5 days 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
        3·
        5 days 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
        2·
        6 days 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.

  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
    5·
    5 days ago

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

    • Nomecks@lemmy.ca
      1·
      5 days ago

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

    • flames5123@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Soooo. I’m dumb. I host my overseerr on my domain that just routes to my local IP for my local desktop. How do I get email on this domain without spending dumb money on an email hosting server?

      • Scrollone@feddit.it
        4·
        6 days ago

        PurelyMail is a great and cheap service. It’s like $10 per year. You just set up some records (MX and TXT) on your domain provider and that’s it.

        You could also self-host email, but then you need a server that’s always powered on and it adds much complexity, so I suggest to use a managed service instead.

        The good thing about using your own domain is that you’re not tied to any service. You could migrate to any other provider (such as ProtonMail, FastMail, etc.) without ever changing your email address on all services.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        5 days ago

        Linux + postfix (SMTP) + dovecot (IMAP and POP3) + SPF + DKIM on the host

        Point the MX record for your domain to your IP address

        Contact your ISP and ask them to set the PTR record for your IP to your hostname

        Mail can be handled by a very low end computer, a raspberry pi can handle email for a small number of users

        If you have a specific mail machine you would forward the ports you use to that host on your router.

  • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    6 days 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.

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 days 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
      6·
      5 days 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
        1·
        5 days 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
          3·
          5 days 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
      6·
      5 days 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.

    • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      $5 for a domain and $30 for a year of hosting is actually very cheap for a simple starter website.

    • CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 days 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.

    • thirteene@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 days 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.

    • VonKeebler@ttrpg.network
      1·
      5 days ago

      You could give a flat file CMS like Grav a shot. It’s basically like a wiki system for running a site. There’s also a slow burn up a hill of complexity where you do LAMP with PHP then you gravitate to things like express.js then Electron and then you roll poorly on your sanity check and end up naked in a bell tower.

      Insert that bell curve meme where it’s wordpress on both sides.

      For self hosting, pick up docker and understand that then go for portainer - it makes making mistakes in the arena super easy to scrub away. I suggest Synology NAS.