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“My sense is that many enterprise WordPress administrators will think twice about continuing to use the software under these circumstances,” said IDC Research Manager Michele Rosen. “It’s such a shame to watch a leader in the open source community repeatedly sabotage his own project.”

“At this point, I have real concerns about the impact of Matt Mullenweg’s words and actions on the overall image of open source software,” she added. “Even if he feels that WP Engine’s actions are unethical and the court is wrong, his actions are clearly having an impact on the WordPress ecosystem, including his own business. It seems self-destructive.”

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[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just a friendly reminder to anyone looking for free website hosting that dozens of Public Access Unix Systems exist and would love to have you as new members.

Almost all of them offer free membership that comes with web hosting, email, and other useful services. Some like SDF and midnight pub come with web browser interfaces allowing easy access to non-geeky users. Some pubnixes do have a small barrier to entry in which you may need to learn how to navigate a conputer through command line terminal.

https://sdf.org/?signup

https://tildeverse.org/members/

https://midnight.pub/

https://envs.net

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/cdg.thegonz.net/infrastructure/hosting/ (this last one is a really large repository for all known pubnixes that also allow for gemini capsule hosting, most of them also have regular https/webpage hosting options as well.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I've looked at SDF before, and one thing has never changed: I have no idea what I'm looking at or how it works, and the more I look the more esoteric it seems.

[-] toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl 1 points 15 hours ago

Interesting, I hadn't heard about this before. Thanks for sharing.

[-] azl@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

We also have a Lemmy instance!

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Ooo I'm gonna use that to make a bio page. I was really considering spending $40+ a yr on a website host

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah you don't need to spend $40 a year just for a bio page anyway, that's nearly as much as the lowest end shared tier of a Hetzner VPS, which should be enough to host your website and instances of some of your favourite self-hostable services.

For a simple static website, there are several free options, most of them being free tiers of paid services. Some even let you set up automation pipelines to rebuild the site when the source gets changed (if you set up something like a git repo with markdown files, to be ingested by a static site generator that turns your markdown into a website, for an example).

On the topic of this post in general, not your issue in particular: The average blog never needed to be dynamic anyway. Static site is always going to load faster than a bunch of PHP being run in the server and there's soooo much less attack surface!

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

wtf 40 dollars a month is too much

I spend less than 12 dollars a month domain included

[-] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

"$40 yr" was short for '$40 a year'
which is still too much considering how I literally just want a bio because the charicter limit is annoying

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 1 day ago

GitHub Pages is a very common free solution for personal bio sites

[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

To hell with supporting Microsoft services

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