[snazz]

I'm agreeing with you that the "modern web" is too complex, but the "make a folder and sync it to a Linux box" solution doesn't work very well for real-world use. It's easier and a lot faster to sync your static site to something like S3 or Google Cloud Storage and serve it from there. Now you don't need to secure and update your Linux box or be responsible for its uptime.

[Frost1x]

>It's easier and a lot faster to sync your static site to something like S3 or Google Cloud Storage and serve it from there. Now you don't need to secure and update your Linux box or be responsible for its uptime.

I was pushing to *nix hosts I didn't have to manage in early 2000. Actually, one of them I recently remembered and had paid a small lifetime membership for limited static hosting (<$100) and simple shell access and guess what--the pages I put together 20 years ago and supplemental files I had hosted are still there. Not only that, they still render as intended.

I've done absolutely nothing for 20 years at this specific host and it's working today. Yes, the content is fairly static and very simple (its 20 years old) but it's all there. It's a simple shared system and no it wouldn't scale out to support more than probably 10k simultaneous requests but its served its purpose over the years. No, there's no SLA. I'm not saying services like S3 haven't been able to improve on that older infrastructure but it goes to show what very simple systems are capable of.

I've not spent a second of time in 20 years worrying about security, someone else did for a very nominal fee. This isn't a new concept, now we have better scaling available for sure.