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By the end of this post you will... Understand, at a deeper level, how LLMs work Have built some new intuition for why LLMs work the way they do Understand the exact 1s and 0s that get cached, and how they reduce the cost of your LLM requests

Sōzu is a lightweight, fast, always-up reverse proxy server.

git-pages is a static site server for use with Git forges (i.e. a GitHub Pages replacement). It is written with efficiency in mind, scaling horizontally to any number of deployed sites and concurrent requests and serving sites up to hundreds of megabytes in size, while being equally suitable for single-user deployments.

In short: a service that publishes the pages branch in your Git repository as a website on your domain; think GitHub Pages if it was open source and community operated. More specifically, it is a public deployment of git-pages and Caddy configured to work especially with Codeberg but also with other Git forges. It is operated by Catherine 'whitequark' and teammates, and currently deployed using Rage4 anycast infrastructure routing to VPSes in six regions (Europe, North America East, North America West, South America, East Asia, Australia), with site contents stored on Tigris and backed up to Wasabi.

$30.00 year

You don’t really need any bot detection: just linking to the garbage from your main website will do. Because each page links to five more garbage pages, the crawler’s queue will quickly fill up with an exponential amount of garbage until it has no time left to crawl your real site.

docker run -it --rm -p 3000:3000 my-static-website

If it were a web app instead, I could drop the developer membership, but I’d have to pay way more money for web and database hosting. Probably need a CDN too, and who knows what else. (I don’t have recent web app experience, so I don’t even know what my requirements would be, but I’m sure they’d cost substantially more than a couple hundred bucks a year.) I could charge for NetNewsWire, but that would go against my political goal of making sure there’s a good and free RSS reader available to everyone.

Our services allow users to publish content without needing to install anything. We accomplish this with the SSH tools (rsync, sftp, sshfs) you already have installed on your system.

Serve mostly static HTML. Use flat JSON storage. Go buildless! Use service workers. Go HTML-first.

So why did we ditch Fly? In the end it came down to the following four things. Until these are improved, I’d be unlikely to recommend it for Production™ work.

Redis inc, whose core product is the formerly open source Redis in-memory database, has prompted further unease in the community by approaching the maintainers of the most popular Rust client library for Redis with the intent either to control or to fork it.

By enforcing the lack of local state, we can ensure that state lives somewhere more appropriate - a queue, a database, an object store and so on. This makes coordination significantly easier - shared-nothing services can be thrown away, scaled up and down without having to worry about state.

Because this system has no moving parts, and it’s just files on a disk, I hope it will last a long time. I’ve already migrated a lot of my files to this approach, and I’m pleased with how it’s going. I get all the simplicity and portability of a file full of folders, with just a bit of extra functionality sprinkled on top.

Plans get complicated, so we just charge based on usage. Pick and choose which pieces you need for your application; that’s all you’ll see on your invoice.

The metrics-based autoscaler scales an app’s Machines based on any metric, such as pending work items or queue depth. Scaling on metrics other than requests or connections is useful for apps, like background workers, that aren’t running web services. Apps with services that need to scale based on HTTP requests can use the built-in Fly Proxy autostop/autostart feature for Machines.

Highlight:Free and open-source, runtipi lets you install all your favorite self-hosted apps without the hassle of configuring and managing each service. One-click installs and updates for more than 200 popular apps. Free and open-source, Runtipi lets you install all your favorite self-hosted apps without the hassle of configuring and managing each service. One-click installs and updates for more than 80 popular apps.

I don’t want to be an entrepreneur! Hell, that’s even more of a pain in the ass than giving stuff away.

Whether it's a personal blog, photos of your kids, or a brand new web-app you've built from scratch, PageKite lets you run websites on your own computers - no hosting required!

"I think HTTP based Git will be a huge part of the future of Git, so if you’re running your own Git server, you should really check it out. If you’re not, GitHub and I’m sure other hosts will soon be supporting it - upgrade your Git client to 1.7ish soon so you can take advantage of it when it happens."

"We don't assume you are stupid."

"Our technical goals are to never lose data, be very fast, and favor boring and faded technologies where possible. A rule of thumb that has worked well for me is that if I'm excited to play around with something, it probably doesn't belong in production."

"Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. EUCALYPTUS is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain"

"The key idea in this system is that the web site exists on the server as a pair of repositories; a bare repository alongside a conventional repository containing the live site. Two simple Git hooks link the pair, automatically pushing and pulling changes between them. "

"office furniture and equipment piled on curb; landlord says “chronic non-payment of rent” caused eviction of web hosting company IAS; provides service for AATA; AATA website currently down;"

"Slides from LinuxWorld presentation by John Engates, CTO of Rackspace."

"RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby. At GitHub, we've tried to make the process of building and releasing new gems as simple as possible. Please see the documentation below on how to use the system."

"the listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases will have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0."

"Continuing with the spring cleaning theme: you need a server. Yep: you. A place to put files. Some for sharing, some just for safekeeping. A place far, far from home. A place with professionals who take care of the machines."

"But to Brain's likely great surprise, I did not die, but in fact woke up, enjoying the restful 3 hours of sleep I just got, amazed at what I'd just seen, and distracted, ever so much, from the horrible pain for a while."

"This is a step-by-step guide of how I made it work and the mileage will vary greatly on the version you try to use. If this guide was helpful or needs corrections, please let me know."

This seems like such a great idea, although their site seems to be inaccessible.

More hosting. Not a bad price

'In recognition of this need, the dedicated hosting industry now has a niche for "personal co-location"'

Wow. $10/mo on the low-end for Linux hosting.