What kind of free hosting would you be interested in?

BasToTheMax

I really like those tilde services. Maybe something like that?

fluffernutter

@ValdikSS said:
I'd be interested in something like https://neocities.org/, but built on modern p2p technologies. For example, with seamless IPFS integration (with javascript injection inside html), something close to what Peertube is doing: every website visitor becomes the seeder of the content which they already visited in their web browser.

Neocities did some interesting things in the social aspect, but their engine lacks any type of dynamic content (such as a simple guestbook or a comment section for a blog), and has strict filetype and filesize limitations.
They have kind-of website comments inside the Neocities page, but it's more like an internal microblog than a dynamic content, you can't embed it into your webpage.

It would be very cool to combine these ideas. Neocities + Tildas + p2p.

There's also https://nekoweb.org/ as something similar.

DewlanceVPS

My Experience with Free Hosting and Problems with Free Hosting

A lot of spam signups. I had to delete accounts in bulk since they signed up with domain names such as xyz1, xyz2, xyz50... Notably, you cannot stop them with any type of captcha since they were signing up manually and not using bots. A lot of bounced email reports since many users sign up with non-existent emails.

Many domains were not pointed to our nameservers or were expired. Some websites were hosting subdomains with a single page.

Plus, abuse reports every month, even if you use scripts to check for malware, spoof websites, etc.

How I Managed Them (free hosting:
1. Created a daily schedule for removing each type of spam signup. I also found and removed spoof/illegal websites to avoid multiple abuse reports each month, but you will surely get at least one abuse report on any given day.

2. Support: You have to provide support. Some free customers will open tickets for their issues.

3. Some bot signups have an automatic method of creating a ticket upon signup, such as "My account is not active," even when their account is active. They will never reply you.

4. Checking each website, DNS, customer details, etc. If you are sure that customer is genuine then allow them. If you find many bogus websites then remove them one by one or in bulk.

After doing all this, your profit will be negative.

BasToTheMax

@ValdikSS said:
I'd be interested in something like https://neocities.org/, but built on modern p2p technologies. For example, with seamless IPFS integration (with javascript injection inside html), something close to what Peertube is doing: every website visitor becomes the seeder of the content which they already visited in their web browser.

Neocities did some interesting things in the social aspect, but their engine lacks any type of dynamic content (such as a simple guestbook or a comment section for a blog), and has strict filetype and filesize limitations.
They have kind-of website comments inside the Neocities page, but it's more like an internal microblog than a dynamic content, you can't embed it into your webpage.

It would be very cool to combine these ideas. Neocities + Tildas + p2p.

I'm thinking about starting my own tilde service. Good idea or nah?

gbzret4d

Give everyone a free package, except @emgh

@Verasel For the long term you need some income to at least cover the running costs. Inodes, iops, cpu, script exection, ... limits for free plans and a small fee for a premium package with a dedicated IP, much higher limits. Free users can't abuse so easily with such limits and power users would be happy too.

ZachNuyek

Can I try running sudo on this?

brauni

@ZachNuyek said:
Can I try running sudo on this?

Straight to jail

beanman109

@ZachNuyek said:
Can I try running sudo on this?

porter 25 and sudo permanhostingly blocked

ZachNuyek

flame post inbound