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by TeMPOraL 2817 days ago
Domains are cheap. Often free for one year.
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Ecco 2817 days ago
Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting. Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc...
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ReverseCold 2817 days ago
> that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it

Sounds fast to me if you know how. Just write the article (markdown + pandoc is fast) and...

With Zeit you can just type `now` and `now alias (url) mydomain.xyz` - and the website is up and running at your domain for $domain_price + 0.10USD/GB.

With DigitalOcean/Vultr/Some VPS Provider + Ansible you can do something similar.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2816 days ago
> Still even if cheap, that’s quite a commitment: finding a domain, paying it, writing a custom (albeit simple) website, uploading it, etc..

I am among the laziest people I know and even I'm raising an eyebrow at this statement.

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TeMPOraL 2817 days ago
> Well they’re “free” if you buy them alongside hosting.

Depends on hosting company. I've "bought" domains for free many times, without hosting, just to run joke sites for few months.

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Ecco 2817 days ago
Ha, interesting! I always assumed a .org was at least a dollar. Mind sharing a link?
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TeMPOraL 2816 days ago
Don't have a free "org" source; maybe they never was. Free domains I got were under national TLD.
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