Hacker News with Generative AI: Hosting

Ask HN: Cheapest way to host a back end (ycombinator.com)
I'm about to help transitioning a mobile app to a charity and need the API to be hosted as cheaply as possible.

Hosting, Back End, APIs, Nonprofits, Cost Optimization

14 points by Jean-Philipe 2 days ago | 33 comments

Bulletproof hosting provider Proton66 steps-up malware campaigns (scworld.com)
The Russian bulletproof hosting provider Proton66 was observed conducting malware campaigns that compromised WordPress sites and then leveraged them to target Android devices.

Cybersecurity, Malware, Hosting, WordPress, Android

5 points by LinuxBender 4 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Disco – The self-hosting platform I wish existed years ago (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, for the past 1.5 years my cofounder Antoine and I have been building Disco, an Open Source deployment platform that lets you host multiple web apps on a single server: https://disco.cloud/

Open Source, Web Development, Hosting, Cloud Computing

12 points by gregsadetsky 19 days ago | 3 comments

Mozilla site down due to "overdue hosting payments" [fixed] (linuxmom.net)

Mozilla, Web Browsers, Technology, Downtime, Hosting

161 points by motownphilly 55 days ago | 102 comments

Automattic Hit with Class Action over WP Engine Dispute (therepository.email)
Automattic is facing a class action lawsuit over its feud with WP Engine, with a cybersecurity expert accusing CEO Matt Mullenweg of waging “nuclear war” against the hosting company at the expense of hundreds of thousands of its customers.

Lawsuits, Class Actions, WordPress, Hosting, Cybersecurity

129 points by rpgbr 59 days ago | 85 comments

Show HN: Custom Website in 2 Mins, Free Hosting, You Own the Code (gitpage.site)
Traditional website development is time-consuming and expensive.

Web Development, Hosting, Open Source

4 points by ambitiouz 95 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: Self hosted Waitlist with Landing page? (ycombinator.com)

Software, Web Development, Hosting, Landing Pages, Waitlists

8 points by surrTurr 97 days ago | 11 comments

Ask HN: Best dedicated server in the US (ycombinator.com)
Need a dedicated. What's the most reliable + reasonably-priced? Came across Datapacket.com, which seems pretty good. All insights welcome. I'm sure many will benefit with this info!

Servers, Hosting, Recommendations, Pricing

26 points by truetraveller 98 days ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting (sliplane.io)
With Sliplane, shipping containers becomes incredibly easy and affordable. Our "Pay-per-Server" model enables you to host unlimited containers on each server for one fixed price.

Docker, Hosting, Cloud Computing, Software, SaaS

64 points by jonas_scholz 102 days ago | 62 comments

How VPS work behind the scene (youtube.com)

VPS, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Technology, Web Development

11 points by devarifhossain 104 days ago | 0 comments

Why we use our own hardware (fastmail.com)
Fastmail has a long history of using our own hardware. We have over two decades of experience running and optimising our systems to use our own bare metal servers efficiently.

Hardware, Email, Hosting, Infrastructure, Cloud Computing

933 points by nmjenkins 125 days ago | 529 comments

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic (theregister.com)
Updated WordPress hosting firm Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg have been ordered to stop interfering with the business of rival WP Engine.

Lawsuits, WordPress, Hosting

7 points by seanhunter 135 days ago | 1 comments

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic (theregister.com)
Updated WordPress hosting firm Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg have been ordered to stop interfering with the business of rival WP Engine.

Legal Battles, WordPress, Hosting, Business

13 points by LinuxBender 135 days ago | 2 comments

Netlify's Free Plan (netlify.com)
Whether you’re launching your next big idea or experimenting with the latest framework, every project should start without financial risk. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Netlify’s Free plan – an always-free solution for deploying your web projects.

Web Development, Free Tools, Hosting

28 points by kristianp 136 days ago | 11 comments

Court Rejects Appeal of YouTube-Dl Hosting Provider 'Uberspace' (torrentfreak.com)
Hosting provider Uberspace has suffered another setback in a German court. The court of appeal ruled against youtube-dl's former hosting provider, holding it liable for alleged violations of YouTube's copyright protection measures. The owner of the company is currently considering further appeal options. Meanwhile, youtube-dl remains available on GitHub.

Copyright, Law, Hosting, Germany, YouTube

25 points by r1chardnl 148 days ago | 3 comments

WP Engine revs Automattic lawsuit with antitrust claim (theregister.com)
WP Engine, a hosting provider for websites running open source WordPress software, has revised its legal complaint against rival Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg to include antitrust allegations.

Antitrust, Lawsuits, WordPress, Hosting

11 points by TechSquidTV 162 days ago | 1 comments

Hosting a hobby project without credit card and How I did it (mataroa.blog)
Hosting a hobby project for free without credit card is tough (rant) & here's how I did it (Hugging face)

Hosting, Hobby Projects, Free Alternatives, Coding, Web Development

6 points by Imustaskforhelp 163 days ago | 5 comments

Hosting Static Content with Pico.sh (goip.de)
pico.sh is a similar blogging platform like Bearblog. In contrast to Bearblog the upload of Markdown content is done using ssh/scp/sftp.

Hosting, Static Content, Blogging Platforms, Open Source

4 points by speckx 173 days ago | 0 comments

Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy (alexwlchan.net)
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.)

Web Development, Hosting, Caddy, Netlify

29 points by twapi 173 days ago | 20 comments

Host a FastAPI Application Without a Server (pinggy.io)
FastAPI, true to its name, is among the fastest frameworks for building APIs. It is a go-to choice for developers aiming to create APIs with speed and ease. Traditionally, hosting and sharing a FastAPI server involves setting up cloud environments, which can be time-consuming. In this article we’ll demonstrate how to bypass that complexity and instantly share your FastAPI server from localhost with a single command using Pinggy.

FastAPI, Web Development, Hosting, APIs, Tools

10 points by AbhilashK26 173 days ago | 1 comments

About that brawl between the WordPress co-founder and WP Engine (computerworld.com)
WordPress has been the most popular content management system for years — and WP Engine was one of the most popular WordPress hosting services around. Not long ago, everyone was happy. Now, it's a miserable open-source business war. What happened?

WordPress, Hosting, Open Source, Business, Conflict

7 points by CrankyBear 192 days ago | 1 comments

Coolify: Open-Source, Self-Hostable Alternative to Heroku/Netlify/Vercel (github.com/coollabsio)
Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Vercel / etc.

Open Source, Web Development, Hosting, Software, Alternatives

35 points by Blade_Circuit 208 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server (github.com/cozis)
This is a minimal web server designed to host my blog. It's built from scratch to be robust enough to face the public internet. No reverse proxies required! You can see it in action at http://playin.coz.is/index.html.

Web Development, C Programming, Hosting, Self-Hosting

303 points by cozis 213 days ago | 155 comments

Matt Mullenweg needs to step down from WordPress.org leadership ASAP (ghed.in)
Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and founder and CEO of Automattic, which owns WordPress.com, made some strong criticisms of WP Engine, a WordPress-focused hosting company, during his closing speech of WordCamp US. He told the audience to ditch WP Engine if they were using it. Notably, WP Engine was a sponsor of the event.

WordPress, Leadership, Criticism, Hosting

45 points by rpgbr 216 days ago | 32 comments

WP Engine is not WordPress (wordpress.org)
It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to customers is that they’re giving you WordPress, but they’re not. And they’re profiting off of the confusion.

WordPress, Hosting, Marketing

267 points by pentagrama 216 days ago | 163 comments

We are self-hosting our GPUs (gumlet.com)
We decided to move off the cloud and host our GPUs. Here is the story of why and how we did it.

Cloud Computing, GPUs, Hosting

67 points by adityapatadia 221 days ago | 59 comments

PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting (pikapods.com)
Run the finest Open Source web apps from just $1/month

Open Source, Hosting, Web Apps, Software

19 points by mawise 232 days ago | 5 comments

Rails 8: 15,000 requests/second with SQLite on $220/month EPYC 48-core Hetzner (twitter.com)

Rails, Performance Optimization, Databases, Hosting, Cloud Computing

13 points by tosh 236 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: How much do you spend on hosting? Share traffic/user metrics (ycombinator.com)