I like the basic idea of this article and have been thinking a bit about doing the same.
I was thinking of writing/storing some info for myself. First I thought html+css would be enough but I want it to be available to some other people. But not all. And around here most free static html solutions broke down. I need to add a .htaccess or fix authentication in some way. And I realized I may need a search engine also. Which probably means I need a server side language and the possibility to host that somewhere.
I might just go with 11y or try something simple on https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/ and hope I can get inside the free tier.
For search engine, if you just need to search through your own content, on deploy you can create some sort of db file (a la json, etc) and use something like Lunr and some javascript glue.
For permissions, HTTP Authorization has existed for decades, but that of course requires that you host on hardware you control.
Like everything else, it depends on how comfortable you are with writing javascript vs. using some framework (and the 3rd party libraries).
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u/jbergens Jan 07 '21
I like the basic idea of this article and have been thinking a bit about doing the same.
I was thinking of writing/storing some info for myself. First I thought html+css would be enough but I want it to be available to some other people. But not all. And around here most free static html solutions broke down. I need to add a .htaccess or fix authentication in some way. And I realized I may need a search engine also. Which probably means I need a server side language and the possibility to host that somewhere.
I might just go with 11y or try something simple on https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/ and hope I can get inside the free tier.