[marginalia_nu]

Wanting to own your own web presence is reason not to host them on GitHub.

For static websites, CDNs are largely unnecessary. My potato of a website hosted from a computer in my living room has been on the front page of HN several times without as much as increasing its fan speed.

It took Elon Musk tweeting a link to one of my blog posts before it started struggling to serve pages. I think it ran out of file descriptors, but I've increased that limit now.

[flatiron]

Was it through a VPN? I feel like revealing my home IP to random people on the internet is a bad move.

[marginalia_nu]

No VPN. I have the ports fairly well tightened down, though. I'm exposed to a zero-day in iptables itself or something, but whatever. Even if someone got in it would be an inconvenience at worst. It's not like I'm making money off this stuff.

[lostlogin]

Are you able to describe how you run yours? I scummed your blog but didn’t see anything about it.

[marginalia_nu]

The static content is just nginx loading files straight off a filesystem. The dynamic content (e.g. the search engine) is nginx forwarding requests to my Java-based backend.

[Dma54rhs]

You can serve massive amount of static requests from any potato really, it's a solved problem.