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ivanjermakov • last Saturday at 11:17 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

> run 100% independently

> For just $0.01/day, you can run a static website at NearlyFreeSpeech.net

I respect the spotlight on hosting your own websites, but it's not much different from the usual Vercel/Netlify/GitHub/Cloudflare static hosting.

What if I want a database, feedback form, social media previews, good SEO? Article says nothing about it. Perhaps that's what makes a website "indie"?

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IanCal • last Saturday at 11:22 PM

You have access to php and a database there.

inigyou • last Sunday at 12:42 PM

If NFS isn't much difference from Vercel we should see 50% of people using Vercel and 50% using NFS, but we don't, they're all on Vercel - why?

xigoi • last Sunday at 7:45 AM

NFS supports dynamic websites (giving you access to a full Linux system with many programming languages), though you’ll have to pay more.

3eb7988a1663 • last Saturday at 11:34 PM

I get your point, but I still remember that guy who got a $100k Netlify bill for his free plan.