go $fsck yourself

I recently saw a self-hosted imgix/cloudinary alternative. I thought I starred it on gh, but apparently not and I can’t remember the name.

Edit
I think this was it:
https://github.com/imgproxy/imgproxy

But also, on a second read of your post, I now realize what you are looking for is right here:
https://squoosh.app/

It’s open source and it’s entirely client-side. It allows you to customize the settings to compress your image to the file size and format you need and maintain as much as the quality as possible. I can’t think of a simpler solution that works across all your devices.

“I get you don’t think it’s important, but there’s plenty of sysadmins that do, with experience backing that up.” Is a passive aggressive remark designed to belittle me based on a notion that you have experience and qualifications over me that makes your point more valid, and also that other people with experience and qualifications would hypothetically agree. It very clearly implicitly claims that I am not a sysadmin and that lacking sysadmin experience is why I am wrong. This does not add to the point at all and provides, so it could not be seen as any other way than an expression of that. However, I still gave you the benefit of doubt and I felt I expressed pretty rationally that that remark does not add to the comment and is disrespectful and that it may have been unintentional to be disrespectful.

But now “I think this guy just likes to argue.” and “it sure escalated with the other commenter” is clear evidence that you were just trying to be rude. I certainly don’t like to “argue” but much more than that I don’t like to be disrespected. So I will stand up for myself and call out such poor behavior.

Jabba could’ve been NalHutta

To add to that, to effectively use docker and basically anything important for self-hosting is to learn the basics of Linux.

A good resource for that is https://learnlinux.tv/

At first I read the title as

How much pareidolia is too much?

And I was bracing for a fun thread, but then my brain caught up and now I’m disappointed.

Yeah, I’m not buying into your trolling. Go somewhere else.

Interesting how you feel the need to disingenuously misrepresent my point.

What registrar was that? Were they as big as Cloudflare? How exactly did they “go tits up”? Isn’t the situation you describe a completely different scope from an individual’s usecase? It’s also an anecdotal point of data without including the full context of how common that situation is. “It happened to me once, and I have heard stories” does not necessarily mean it’s common enough for everyone to prepare for every time. I’ll remain skeptical of the

Mainly, though, I’m not saying it’s a bad idea in total. I just think that for someone who is inexperienced with DNS management and self-hosting, those types of concerns are already unlikely and just keeping the environment simple and cost less has far more value than being prepared for unlikely scenarios. It could even prevent self-inflicted issues by keeping it simple, which would be far more likely than Cloudflare’s infrastructure creating a problem that they have to remediate themselves.

If anything, the true argument for risk mitigation would be to have multiple DNS servers for redundancy.

I just don’t believe that, in this type of usecase, it’s worth pressing for and that there’s more of an argument to keep it simple.

Additionally, you can leave out trying to use your credentials and a hypothetical group of people to make your argument for you. It makes it seem like you’re trying to talk down.

I get that you’re likely exaggerating by saying “it’s no extra work”, but managing another account is markedly extra work. It will also cost extra because Cloudflare does not add any markup for registration, which is why they are the cheapest registrar.

I think the convenience and reduction of cost greatly outweighs the highly unlikely situation where “something goes fucky”. If it does, then what? You can’t make DNS updates for a little while?

The most likely reason to get locked out is billing issues, or maybe you lost your login information or something like that, which is going to be the same risk regardless of who your registrar is. Otherwise you’d have to be involved in some sort of legal issue associated with your domain and that is a much deeper issue than can be solved by simply changing nameservers.

I noted that this was something added automatically by Ghost, the blogging platform the website is hosted on.

However, ultimately there is no good way to discern if a link like that is not an affiliate link or a non-anonymous tracking link, particularly for the average user. Particularly when the link does not include nofollow on the anchor tag.

You’ll be fine to move them to Cloudflare.

What the other user is describing would be an extremely rare scenario, and you should be able to change registrars in that case anyway.

There’s really not much of any practical benefits of that kind of excessive “risk mitigation”.

Yeah, I think the title is just bait to get more clicks. Leveraging legitimate fear for what Trump’s administration is doing to garner more clicks is pretty scummy.

It’s also ironic that the premise they are playing on to write this article is anti-trump, but then they go on to list Protonmail even though the CEO has been kicking Trump’s boots.

Edit - Oh, look at that… a referral link to Proton.

They also use GoDaddy for their domain registrar. No one who runs a website and uses GoDaddy should be trusted to provide any reliable advice on anything tech related.

Okay. What the fuck?

*Again - no affiliate links. You can count on that, for every post on this blog. I don’t profit from you as a reader in any way beyond your direct support, if you so choose.

Then what the fuck is this?

Edit again - Apparently their site is a Ghost blog, which has a feature that adds that referral parameter automatically. It’s called “outbound link tagging”. At least it was not intentional, but it does show more evidence that this person should not be relied on for good information.

I find their website so awful and painful to use. Everything is difficult to find and just takes longer to accomplish than nearly anywhere else. I bought one domain from them once and will never use them again.

I’m not sure what the consequences are for ignoring it, but it would violate the ICANN RAA to lock a person out of being able to transfer their domain except for legal reasons like evidence of fraud or a court order. Sure, they can terminate your account on their services but they can’t prevent you from transferral without violating their agreement with ICANN.

It would be a weird scenario that you’re describing that would be unusual and exceedingly rare. You would need to be directly connected to something highly illegal for that to happen, not just a normal user.

Oh, maybe. It’s rather confusing if that’s so.

Right. I’m not talking about the free service. I’m talking about the paid domain with “unlimited DNS records”. That just seems so weird and kind of a red flag. It seems I can’t find information about that without an account, either. Also weird and a red flag. But maybe that info is just buried in their site somewhere in the not-so-great design.

“unlimited DNS records”??

That’s like saying “I bought a house and I get unlimited door opens”

If you buy a domain you have full access and control over all of it.

A .com domain should only cost around $13/yr USD, and other TLDs can be even cheaper. There’s really no good reason to use some service that limits control and access just to save so little.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/duck-dns

Wow that is dumb.

WordPress core is not particularly ‘sketchy’, it just gets tricky when you start adding plugins. There’s no vetting on the quality of plugins available on the WordPress.org repo, and even less in places like Envato. The vast majority of plugins and themes are pure shit because they are made by companies trying to take advantage of the people who don’t know any better and their goal is to make them as appealing as possible rather than making a quality product and letting that be the appeal.

WordPress is fine if you want a blog and don’t mind the more out-of-the-box experience they provide, with the exception of a few plugins that have proven their quality over time. Though, as a new user how do they know what plugins are good? You don’t. There’s tons of info out there for WordPress, but again the vast majority is catered towards people who just want a quick solution and can be taken advantage of to be sold a product.

I think you’ll be fine starting off with a basic WordPress blog while you try and test out other options to see how they stack up and how they work for you. Just be very careful about which plugins or themes you install. You can use Roots/Bedrock to help secure the site and make it work a bit closer to a modern platform since you manage it with Composer. Or you can use ClassicPress if you don’t want Gutenberg shoved down your throat.

Other options would be 11ty, Hugo, or a Nextjs based site.