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Hi @default! Hope you feel better soon! Best wishes! Tom
I am feeling great. Thanks. Best wishes to you too.
You said you were sad, so I said I hope you feel better.
Looks like my good wishes worked!
I am glad! 
A person can feel great and sad at the same time. Happiness is not always correlated to positive thinking. Happiness is best defined as peace of mind and conscience (at least this is how I see it).
Sadness however, is an emotion which in this case I correlate to LET profits. Your good wishes only received a formal respect from my side due to the fact that you actually noticed how I feel about underlying LET profits and hidden purposes. I respect you as a person and human being, but you're still a moderator on LET, so please allow me to challenge the thinking foundations which drive your projects.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, on the surface.
I don't see the two of us as being on "different sides."
I thought of the same thing when i visited the site!
GoDaddy certs are free if site is hosted on GoDaddy itself!
Another chain to keep you tied to GoDaddy.
What's different from a GoDaddy cert and letsencrypt cert?
Hi again @ravi!
Would you want actively to help FreeVPS.org integrate your template? Thank you either way.
Best!
Tom
Hello!
I thought the AI web design was fun!
Does anybody want to become the web designer / programmer for FreeVPS.org? If yes, please post a design suggestion to enter the contest.
Thanks!
Tom
Yes, I can help with my template.
Regards:
Great! Seems like @ravi's template is the front runner since it's the only entry so far. Anybody else?
Plot twist: in two years, FreeVPS.org becomes competitor with LET.
Buffett's weekly Coca-Cola budget probably dwarfs the total amount of money they ever spent at godaddy.
Also, I'm guessing that "tie" is like 15 minutes work. It's not some government payroll system running on Oracle.
Not the intention. I'd be very surprised! 😯 Plus we'd need to use forum software like Vanilla or Arc Forum. I couldn't even do that without a really good front end webmaster genius.
Jon's been really nice to me! If I were to decide to try becoming Jon's competition, he'd be the first to encourage me and to wish me good luck. ❤️
Maybe "free" is indeed the future of the Low End. Lots of big providers offer free plans now and those free plans are getting bigger. Maybe FreeVPS.org could become a centralized connection point for all the big providers' free plans in addition to continuing the tiny slices we have been providing.
Best wishes to all and special thanks to @jbiloh and @GTHost.
Floydhub might be gone. Cloudflare says "Error 1016 Origin DNS error."
There is a Github issue from 12 days ago. https://github.com/emilwallner/Screenshot-to-code/issues/72
On the good side, I have an existing server set up which already has some of the stuff required for a local installation of Screenshot-to-Code. So maybe I will try to install it.
Does anybody have Screenshot-to-Code set up and working?
idk, GoDaddy has different Certificate Authority and root CA than Let's Encrypt,
GoDaddy certificates cost money, either through buying the certificate directly or through paying for other services where a "free" certificate is included. An attacker is less likely to use GoDaddy certificates for a fake or hacked website if they must pay for it out of pocket. Of course, they may have taken over the victim's GoDaddy account to use it for their own purposes.
Let's Encrypt is free and will automatically issue a free certificate without waiting. All you must do is show that you have control of the domain - whether you control it legitimately or are an attacker who just "pwned" it. With Let's Encrypt, you can create as many fake websites with as many "valid" certificates as you need. Free, without waiting.
Whenever I see a Let's Encrypt certificate, I am wary, especially if I am being asked to provide personal information, health information, or payment information. I have no issues with Let's Encrypt certificates that prove ownership of a domain for an informational or news website or a forum like this one.
Let's Encrypt certificates are useful to me for simple uses such as VPS GUI control panels (e.g., Webmin), our household firewall's GUI interface, my personal websites, etc.
When your browser shows you a padlock icon, you do not know who issued the certificate, only that the certificate matches the URL in the address bar. You must click on the certificate icon and drill down a couple menus to see the actual certificate.
Here is an example of a company that sells certificates, but uses a Let's Encrypt certificate for their home page. I had my domains registered with them for over 15 years, but do NOT recommend them. The company is AIT (Advanced Internet Technologies). I am so glad that I have moved away from them. Type "ait.com" in your browser, and it will redirect to:
"ait.com" ->
https://website-design.ait.com//
The website above, AIT's home page, is secured with a Let's Encrypt certificate. (!!) Note the typo in the redirect (two slash characters at the end), which works, but shows poor attention to detail. Here is the page where they sell certificates. That page is secured with a GlobalSign certificate:
https://www.ait.com/security/ssl-certificates/
By the way, I ended up speaking with one of the senior managers on the phone while trying to get them to acknowledge my domain transfer requests away from AIT. Since he was nice enough to help me get my domains moved away, I informed him about the "misconfigured" home page with the Let's Encrypt certificate during our phone call. That was three months ago. I guess he forgot about it. It is still unchanged. As I said, I do not recommend AIT.
Edit: Sorry, seems like I'm derailing a thread
Me too. I hope the response was helpful to someone. If not, the moderators can delete it - I wrote it for others, not myself.
👀 If you carefully think about it, it isn't that hard.
Setup Discourse on a low-end box and you can use it pretty much until 1k-2k active users.
The FreeVPS.us story is not quite the same but related.
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing it!
No worries! An interesting discussion is fine. Thanks you!
👀 If you carefully think about it, it isn't that hard.
Thanks! The thing is, I wasn't imagining doing it myself. I was imagining some guys might want to take over and expand FreeVPS.org. I have something elsewhere that I want to do.
Besides a web designer, FreeVPS.org could use a sysadmin to help @TheOnlyDK when he is sleeping and if we get the additional servers that people have been talking about donating. FVPS could use an attorney and an accountant. Plus some board members.
FVPS is off the ground now thanks to @GTHost and to @TheOnlyDK. Additional thanks to @yoursunny and @DP. I hope a few more people will join and contribute in the needed areas before I move elsewhere.
My move is gonna happen soon. Even if nothing more happens, I think @TheOnlyDK will do a great job with FreeVPS.org for as long as @GTHost wants to continue donating the first server. And ~20 people already have received nice free VPSes, which is great!
It's generally not recommended to put a certificate on a private IP accessed host like your home firewall as it's more likely to bork you than help you (it provides no additional benefit over self signed).
Most people here probably would not like to take over freevps.org, but would definitely like to help.
I can help you with web-related stuff.
Yeah. Understood. I thought it was worth asking, because somebody might want to do it.
Sure! Plenty of nice folks here!
Thanks! Much appreciated!
Wanna work up a prototype and link it here to enter the contest?
All that needs to be said probably is just the basics from this thread and the Free NAT KVM Courtesy of GTHost thread, especially the Free NAT KVM thread's OP.
Something simple is fine. Any questions, please ask. Thanks again!
I think i misphrased it. I can help with system administration/ web administration, I don't do web design.
Ah! Got it! Thanks! Any chance you have a profile / resume / website which details your sysadmin and webadmin skillset and experience? Please PM me if you wish. Thanks again!