And I’d like to be able to do it privately too, that’d be cool.

Things I can do –

  • write HTML and CSS
  • register a domain and set up hosting
  • use Filezilla

Things I don’t know how to do –

  • Create databases, I always had someone around to do that for me
  • Self-host
  • Set up an onion site 🧅
  • Set up an eepsite
  • Register a .bit domain

I am more of a content gal than a tech gal, but think of all the cool stuff I could create if I could spin up anonymous websites in a few hours.

  • The Doctor ( drwho@beehaw.org ) English
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    3 years ago

    Web 1.0 stuff didn’t have a back-end database for the most part. It was pretty much all flat files containing HTML. Once in a while there would be a cgi-bin script that could access a database, but they were pretty rare back then.

    As for self-hosting… you say that you can already set up hosting. What do you mean by that? Going through the hoops with a hosting provider to set up an account, and stuff? Context in the text is a bit thin but I’m guessing you mean, setting up a (virtual) machine to install and configure a web server?

    The most expedient way of setting up an .onion site would be to use a VPS or your own machine. You can technically do it by applying the hiddenservice tutorial in the docs, but that’s not, technically what you mean I think.

    eepsite - No idea.

    .bit domain registration - that’s getting into Namecoin, alternative TLDs, and stuff like that. I’ve not worked with Namecoin so I can’t speak to that, just keep in mind that if you go all-in on .bit a lot of folks won’t be able to access it unless they’re set up to use the .bit DNSes.

    Edit: Maybe this would be a good place to start reading: https://github.com/lime360/awesome-neocities