▲ 160 ▼ The end of Linux Gaming Central (linuxgamingcentral.com) submitted 2 years ago by Kushia@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml 14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago (3 children) My one question is why the site is shutting down rather than merely not making new posts anymore. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] halendos@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Website hosting costs most likely. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 17 points 2 years ago I mean sure maybe 10 years ago. But most static sites like blogs and such can fit entirely on a cloudflare page worker under the free tier. Or heck, even the free allotment on AWS S3 or other object storage providers. I mean, perhaps this isn't a static site and it's built on some sort of CMS and has a postgres database in the background. In that case it probably runs around $5 to $10 a month. Of course, this all presumes that the person setting this up is fairly savvy about the offerings available. I see a lot of people making silly decisions in this space, thinking that they need some full fat virtual private server, when all they really need is an object storage bucket behind a DNS c-name. permalink fedilink source parent [–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago I'm thinking that the author is doing this so they avoid thoughts like "the website is still up, why am I not posting anything on it?" We are talking about a person who felt the urge to post at least once every single day of their life, while maintaining a job. permalink fedilink source parent [–] carzian@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago Don't underestimate the relief of a clean ending. The author isn't in a good place, it won't do him any favors to leave it up. He clearly wants to put this chapter of his life behind him. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] halendos@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) Website hosting costs most likely. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 17 points 2 years ago I mean sure maybe 10 years ago. But most static sites like blogs and such can fit entirely on a cloudflare page worker under the free tier. Or heck, even the free allotment on AWS S3 or other object storage providers. I mean, perhaps this isn't a static site and it's built on some sort of CMS and has a postgres database in the background. In that case it probably runs around $5 to $10 a month. Of course, this all presumes that the person setting this up is fairly savvy about the offerings available. I see a lot of people making silly decisions in this space, thinking that they need some full fat virtual private server, when all they really need is an object storage bucket behind a DNS c-name. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] th3raid0r@tucson.social 17 points 2 years ago I mean sure maybe 10 years ago. But most static sites like blogs and such can fit entirely on a cloudflare page worker under the free tier. Or heck, even the free allotment on AWS S3 or other object storage providers. I mean, perhaps this isn't a static site and it's built on some sort of CMS and has a postgres database in the background. In that case it probably runs around $5 to $10 a month. Of course, this all presumes that the person setting this up is fairly savvy about the offerings available. I see a lot of people making silly decisions in this space, thinking that they need some full fat virtual private server, when all they really need is an object storage bucket behind a DNS c-name. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago I'm thinking that the author is doing this so they avoid thoughts like "the website is still up, why am I not posting anything on it?" We are talking about a person who felt the urge to post at least once every single day of their life, while maintaining a job. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] carzian@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago Don't underestimate the relief of a clean ending. The author isn't in a good place, it won't do him any favors to leave it up. He clearly wants to put this chapter of his life behind him. permalink fedilink source parent