Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Hosting

"So what happens if you buy http://us-east-1.com?" (twitter.com)
WordPress.com's owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine (theverge.com)
WordPress.com’s owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine.
WP Engine Tracker (wordpressenginetracker.com)
This is the number of websites that have left WP Engine and found a new home since Sep 21, 2024.
WP Engine – Ensuring Stability and Security: Recent Timeline (wpengine.com)
We’re keenly aware of the impact recent events have had on the WordPress community and ecosystem, and we’re deeply grateful to the many partners and customers who have stood by WP Engine and trust us to serve you in the face of unprecedented and unwarranted attacks and attempts to disrupt our platform.
Tell HN: Switched from Lightsail to Hetzner Cloud, 2 blogs for $4 a month (ycombinator.com)
After a few comments mentioned I was probably wasting money using AWS Lightsail, I finally tried out Hetzner Cloud for hosting my Ghost Blogs.
Court grants WP Engine's motion to shorten time [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
WP Engine File Motion for Preliminary Injunction (bullenweg.com)
Following Matt’s escalating threats and actions, WP Engine file MOTION for Preliminary Injunction filed by WPEngine, Inc.
Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way" (wordpress.org)
Log in to your WordPress.org account to contribute to WordPress, get help in the support forum, or rate and review themes and plugins.
Hetzner Object Storage (hetzner.com)
How Much Traffic a $6 VPS Server Can Handle? (youtube.com)
Response to WP Engine’s Lawsuit (automattic.com)
Last night, WP Engine filed a baseless lawsuit against Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, and WordPress.org. Their complaint is flawed, start to finish. We vehemently deny WP Engine’s allegations—which are gross mischaracterizations of reality—and reserve all of our rights. Automattic is confident in our legal position, and will vigorously litigate against this absurd filing, as well as pursue all remedies against WP Engine.
Domain Name Price Increases (porkbun.com)
OINK! Have we got some news for YOU! It’s hot off the presses 🗞️ and you’re gonna want to pay attention to this one. It’s about everyone’s least favorite subject — domain price increases.
Domain to a Landing Page right from DNS settings (medium.com)
Are you sitting on a collection of unused domains? You’re not alone. Many of us purchase domain names with future projects in mind, only to leave them dormant. I built a simple solution to put these domains to work: YourDomainSite.com.
WP Engine Reprieve (wordpress.org)
I’ve heard from WP Engine customers that they are frustrated that WP Engine hasn’t been able to make updates, plugin directory, theme directory, and Openverse work on their sites. It saddens me that they’ve been negatively impacted by Silver Lake‘s commercial decisions.
WordPress.org bans WP Engine (techcrunch.com)
WordPress drama went up another notch on Wednesday after WordPress.org, the open source web-hosting software, banned hosting provider WP Engine from accessing its resources.
WP Engine Must Win (rmccue.io)
On stage at WordCamp US last week, Matt Mullenweg gave a keynote presentation which made a wide range of points about contribution, the ethics of open source, and the commitments various companies make to contributing. In particular, he called out WP Engine in what was a fairly clear direction to the community to stop using them. This was then followed with a post on WordPress.org.
WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org (wordpress.org)
WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites (reddit.com)
WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites (reddit.com)
WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from updating and installing plugins and themes via WP Admin.
Automattic has sent a cease and desist to WP Engine (twitter.com)
WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic (twitter.com)
Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60% (mataroa.blog)
But now, in their August 2024 price list, they are certainly giving customers a good reason to look for other options. The .com renewal price is up nearly 60%.
Dave's “Games Under NT 4.0” page (1998) (archive.org)
The web page will be moving soon.  I have finally found a decent provider with FrontPage extension support.  That means that I will have an NT server running a Microsoft FrontPage server.
Cohost to shut down at end of 2024 (cohost.org)
We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.
fly.io Network Outage (flyio.net)
Ask HN: Is GoDaddy lying to me about .tv domains? (ycombinator.com)
Purism Domain Puri.sm Suspended? (marcaria.com)
Ask HN: Best public cloud for small websites? (ycombinator.com)
Price increase for .COM, .XYZ, and more domains (namecheap.com)
Accident Forgiveness (fly.io)