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So I have light computer-toucher experience (I've done hell-desk for 4 years, but not much outside of that,) and I'm wanting to create a website to host my stories, drawings, and animatics that I've created. I need this because A.) Some of the content I create doesn't work in github after a certain file size, B.) The videos I make are worthless without the story surrounding them, and finally C.) I'm switching some of my stories from one forum to another, and want to have a place that isn't paywalled if people want to read my old content. (The CYOA forum here has like a 20 users max, less than 8 total read my stories and I want to move to a place that has hundreds of thousands of people registered to read these kind of stories. I want to reach a larger audience.) I want to be able to keep my stories separate from each other, and maybe have custom or thematic backgrounds for each one, be able to have a next button that moves between posts on the stories, and be able to embed videos and images to the story as necessary. I'll probably just be copy pasting them off the forums to a google doc, and then using a program that transfer between google docs and html. I want to host the images and videos I create in such a way, that I can post the on forums and the like and they would embed like normal. I really don't see more than maybe 20 - 100 people using this, and even that is overwhelmingly optimistic, that being said I still would want a host that would make me re-do everything if I end up getting larger traffic than I had planned. I don't think I need a big-girl host like AWS or something, just a simple website host that'll easily let me format and post images, videos, and texts. Do you have any recommendations? Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Mar 18, 2021 |
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CarForumPoster posted:Would wix do what you want? No both the storage page, and the video time are way too low, especially for 15$ I have adobe dreamweaver if that makes things better?
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Rufus Ping posted:Is there a reason the videos can't go on YouTube or Vimeo It's not porn or anything like that but it's still not anything I can put on youtube realistically. They've also taken down previous videos before. I have Discord Nitro so I've been hosting my videos and images using that and github. I do parodies of musicals, and some of the covers and things I use get flagged by youtube's system. I would rather host it myself if I can. Twerk from Home posted:About that video hosting: this is the tricky part, video both takes up a lot of disk, and if you do get a high-traffic month, consumes a lot of bandwidth to serve. People normally dump video on Youtube, Vimeo, or someone else to host. It sounds like you're wanting to use this site as an image and video host to be posted in other places too. Consider what happens if somebody posts one of your videos on Reddit and you get 10,000x normal traffic. I'd actually say that the safest way to set up your own video host is to look for a Virtual Private Server, VPS offering. Unlike all of the options above, this would leave you in charge of taking care of a Linux VM somewhere in the world, which isn't a ton of maintenance but also is still more work and learning that you have to do. I think this might be the best idea, do you have anything you'd recommend? Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 02:36
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Biowarfare posted:This will get your Discord account killed. I've been doing my stories for a year, and as I've gotten better at art and animation they've grown in size. My first story was 60 mb from beginning to end. While the latest 3 stories doing half a gig a piece. I'm using 2 gigs right now, but I see that bloating up as I do more.
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Mar 20, 2021 10:22
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No I have adobe dreamweaver, so I'll make my own stuff. Unless a website maker is really good? I don't really know much about them, but I made a website in High School? Like they made me use linux and everything, but that was 12 years ago. I just mean, if a file is too big for Github they won't let you embed it. So when I create a page to host my stories, I would want to be able to embed my images and videos in the page. I write my posts into Google Docs, which has BBCode output for the forums, and HTML output for the webpages. Boba Pearl fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 11:03
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Wait I can use a seedbox as a website? I have one of those. Mine is with seedit4me.
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Mar 20, 2021 18:13
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Yeah but I wouldn't mind switching, I could just go with feral for my seedbox and then setup a domain and point it at that?
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Mar 20, 2021 18:25
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Well, I've been thinking of switching off my seedbox anyways, so switching to one that lets me host my own website might be overkill, but if they charge less, or the same as my current seedbox, then it doesn't feel like I'm spending anymore money, but Dreamhost looks cool too, it's 5$ a month which is nice.
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Do you buy a domain name, and the get your SSL cert or the other way around?
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