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		grifball on May 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tiny websites are great oh, wow, just read that complicated cli/firebase stuff. yeah, even easier (or maybe more minimalistic) would be: goto 192.168.0.1 (or .1.1) and figure out how to port forward '80' to your machine. install apache goto a dynamic dns service, get some sub-subdomain, and setup a curl script to set it to your IP. put an html file in your apache server. voila, you have your own website* *if your ISP allows traffic on port 80

nmeofthestate on May 19, 2020 | [–]

It's funny that you think all that stuff is easier.

bryanrasmussen on May 19, 2020 | [–]

I think for non-techie users these things are equivalently difficult.

For me, I hate installing stuff, last time I installed Apache must have been before 2004, and I would like to not have to go back.

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