[Keyframe]

- Don't host email yourself

- Don't host your website yourself

- Don't operate your servers yourself

- Don't even own a website yourself

- Don't allow robots onto your site

- Don't allow cookies by default

- Don't do this and that and you'll disappear from "the internet" (google, now llms)

- Don't..

How about we bring internet back to its roots? Let's keep own directory of websites like in ye good old times and be done with it. Internet became a garden of few big companies. 1995-2005 RIP

[yial]

I’ve self hosted a server for various things going back to somewhere around 2006/7? Whenever I finally had access to a non dial up connection.

I’ve not always used it for anything amazing, over the years it’s been just an ftp server, just http, just a Remote Desktop, a Minecraft server, email server, etc etc. (obviously sometimes combinations, and the hardware has changed from the original - the original being a motherboard without an enclosure I would start by shorting the pins with a butter knife ….)