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I settled on my perfect stack 2 decades ago. nginx with .html and .jpg/.png/etc files in directories on a file system on my home computer with port 80 forwarded (20 years ago it was thttp). For templating I use server side includes which are the perfect balance of utility/expressiveness and a minimal attack surface with no mantainance burden.

Having it on my home computer also gives me massive storage space and ease of editing. The only cost is ~$10/yr for the .com domain. DNS hosting is free from zoneedit (they've been great the last 20 years).

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So you have to have your computer always on?

How does the DNS thing work? They use a DynDNS client on your computer or what

Comcast only changes my IP once every 2-3 years. I just manually update it. But zoneedit does have a free dyndns endpoint if your IP does change often.

Yes, I leave my computer on 24/7/365. The webserver/my primary desktop is on a Core2Duo build from 2007 and it still chugging along just fine.

That's nuts. I assume you at least have an SSD now?

I copied the boot and OS partitions to a SSD and swapped it in in 2018. It's nice enough. This machine actually has something like 25TB storage total. I'll probably have to swap that 2018 SDD out soon since SSD don't have indefinite lifespans like the occasional lucky HDD.

Is it? Most people at work just leave their workstations on 24/7 everywhere I’ve worked.

The fact that most people where you've worked have workstations instead of laptops is kind of strange...

Wall Street. The work didn’t come home with you…

I meant the age of the CPU etc. A used $100 cpu from 5 years ago is 10x more powerful...

I have plenty of newer computers in the shared keyboard/mouse span of monitors in my array of desktop computers. It's just that they run newer software and newer software is worse software. Things have been mostly downhill in linux UI since "convergence" with mobile, IBM/Red Hat's dumbing down of Gtk, and the take-over of containers over actually running applications on your OS.

Well, I'm using Linux mint with XFCE on a 2018 $300 laptop and don't have any performance or UI issues...

Try copying a file path to clipboard then using a Gtk3/4 program and opening a File->Open dialog and pasting the file path in. There'll be no text-input area there to paste in to and it will give an error. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5872 This has been a known issue since they caused it in 2014 by removing the gsettings to allow for having text entry bars.

declient cron job. No more DNS manual edits.

I do similar but with hugo markdown and a git repo linked with cloudfare - then it’s hosted on their static free hosting.

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