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Just as a side-note since their example uses CloudFlare: I think that host-rewriting is disabled on CloudFlare as a security or spam-avoidance feature.

If you want to have CF change the host to something else, like censored.com, this domain must also be part of your controlled domains, which means CF can’t be used for this purpose.

This at least was the case last time I looked into this (12 months ago)

It’s also possible that this feature is enabled for paying users, which I wasn’t.

I'm 23 buckets tall and half a periwinkle.

For now?

What’s the advantage? I don’t think it’s likely to cost less as a service, especially directly from Apple. If you get the same performance per dollar you might as well keep using what you have.

Heat and energy savings only apply to the direct user (in this case Apple Hosting) and unlikely to be passed onto you (since it’s Apple).

We’ve already seen this with M1 computers which are simpler and less expensive but did not have a lower retail price.

You know what’s getting old? My 2020 computer having the same RAM as my 2013 computer.

This is not acceptable for a $2000+ machine.

Apple really skimps on RAM and my new iPhone can’t take a photo without purging every single other app.

What a feature to introduce in 2020. This has been a core part of the UI of OS X for… ever? For every app.

In a honest non-secure version, just like in the old times.

You’re missing the point. Why buy something if you don’t have to? That’s the reasoning here. You don’t spend money, your product doesn’t depreciate, you always have a brand new product. You only have to deal with your guilt and ethics or lack thereof.

I think the answer is not “not”

It’s abuse because people buy it with the intent to return it. Buying it and then honestly changing your mind is fine, but Amazon probably determined that wasn’t the case here.

It’s kinda ridiculous that this happens. It’s not like it’s graphic intensive. Why would it warm up any GPU of this decade?

To be fair, that always refers to the LOC I wrote.

If I can write monaLisa() and get a nice painting on canvas then that really was 1 LOC.

What line count doesn’t include is the weight of the dependency, which may or may not matter.

It’s an interesting product but it’s very barebones. Netlify is a whole company vested in making the same thing as this “side project” by CloudFlare and therefore has a lot more interesting features than just serving static files.

Yeah that sounds reasonable. I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to rewriting the templates.

By the way you could just use the images served from WordPress.com I assume… unless the ToS don’t allow that.

Maintenance is certainly useful even if there are no new features. I doubt the project is bug-free so no updates means no bugfixes either.

Do you still have a regular WordPress host though? Do you use WordPress.com?

I always wanted to do this but every solution requires some non-free PHP hosting alongside the static host. WordPress.com doesn’t let you customize it unless you pay and if you want to use it headlessly you have to build a non-WordPress template elsewhere.

I have a low-traffic low-edit WordPress site I want to staticize, but no solution is server-free.