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Show the Best Websites you Made!
Show your best web creations that deserve the most recognition, coded up by yourself over hundreds of nights in a room lit only by the purple LEDs of your workstation CPU!
Must include:
- the programming language you used to code up the website
- the database system you picked (if any)
- how you take backups of the website and server (... if any ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
- other configurations (reverse proxy / load balancer, sharding, ...)
- the VPS / hosting provider
- ANYTHING ELSE!
Comments
First!
Circa 2013 I made this:
It was a website for organizing multiplayer matches for a game called Freeciv. Written in straight Bash with a custom CMS also made in Bash, the data was stored in MySQL using a connector I wrote in Bash. It had master/slave replication between the frontend server and a backend using rsync within a Bash script that copied the database files from server A to B. It took 75 days of development to reach public viability, which is the day-count I published on the inauguration post of the website's forum. It was hosted on ColoCrossing for a few years and all worked cool until I killed it for lack of users :(
dang son
We’ve been building websites since 2001.
Here are some screenshots of our early websites:
https://yoursunny.com/t/2011/10year-websites/
Our most popular website ought to be signup.msn.cn.
It was built with ASP.Net MVC and Windows Live Admin Center API.
Hundreds of visitors registered Hotmail accounts through this website daily.
Imagine the shock when I learned of Shellshock
The Bash CMS was also handling multipart form data, mime types, and cookies. It wasn't until a few years later that cookies became a public scandal in the collective imagination, so I avoided setting any cookies from the newer websites that I published afterward.
Is there anything else you would like to confess @yoursunny before dying? I'm not a priest as you might know, I'm afraid that confessing those sins to me is not going to redeem the burden on your conscience
You say you wrote that in straight Bash with a custom CMS also made in Bash, I assume you ran all that on a cgi backend.
That's really cool!
https://www.tencentcloud.com/
pretty impressive i know
CGI on Lighttpd! It was an edgy and quite unique paradigm to develop a website on. The motivation for the eccentricity was to have an excuse to learn some of the HTTP RFCs.
The more recent VPS Price Tracker that I wrote doesn't use anything but straight Nodejs, not even a database :O If it turns into a commercial failure at least I'll have had an excuse to play out with more eccentric ideas.
Your VPS Price Tracker may not be using a conventional database engine but I'm quite sure that whatever you implemented there can be described as a simple custom file based database, one that does not need to support sophisticated data integrity mechanisms but still offers the features you need while requiring only a small fraction of the computationel effort that a formal database would.
You don't always have to use a machine gun to kill a fly, sometimes a simple flyswatter will be enough.
The last time I designed a website myself before I permanently retired from web design is the 2016 version of DigitalFyre's website! I made all the previous versions, but this one was the best and I retired afterwards
I still have my old "skills" with PHP, HTML, CSS, but I forgot all the JS & jQuery I knew
Background is Boston
PHP backend. HTML5/CSS3/jQuery front-end. No database 👀
hostsolutions.ro
You need to use time machine to get access.
I'll buy this company from you
wat
how
why
never mind the why how
Back in 2001, I wrote an alumnus address book for my classmates in elementary school, when I was a kid. That was built with ASP+Access (.mdb), and was deployed on a free webhosting. After a while, I noticed most reliable free webhosting providers support only PHP, and that's when I realize PHP was the best programming language in the world:)
https://fuckdmca.ru/
I once built a film and television website, but it was shut down due to DMCA! I lost a lot of money.
"You shut down my $3 VPS, which is not a lot of money, but definitely not a small amount. I want to make you unhappy for the rest of your life, sick for no reason, and poor for the rest of your life! So I opened a karaoke funeral home for you."
Oh no! You lost 3 bucks!
When I was a student, I had very little pocket money.
https://384.cz/
HTML+CSS+JS (without any damn framework)
Edit: Some CGI (Python, PHP, Bash)
No DB
I have a backup on my laptop
Nginx (formerly lighttpd)
Self hosted
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400G (8)
The server:
EDIT: Btw, he is called Harry
If you had done it in PHP it could have been Facebook…
There is some good documentation here http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/BashShellCgi.html
Excerpt:
I'd post but they were hosted on myw.pt and that stuff is gone
It was a small fun threejs website featuring a mascot
painhub.com
https://racknode.net/
React
Isn't that a domain parking ad template?
Like when a domain expires, a squatter buys it and places ads, hoping to eventually resell it?
(psst it looks like garbage ;)
Did you use v0.app for this?
The theming looks very familiar
looks like shadcn
Thanks! Nope, it’s fully custom-made — built from scratch with React + Tailwind (not v0.app).
I might put this design up for sale soon. If anyone’s interested, I can also make a custom version for your hosting site.
https://LinuxFreek.com
Good old plain HTML
I made a site made a site called https://yabs.cc for sharing YABS reports.
It's nothing too scientific - more like a personal organizer for your YABS results, where you can collect them all in one place and share them easily.