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bradlytoday at 1:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

I'm not sure I understand this post. Is this talking about self hosting Caddy in a home lab setting or just static web hosting on a VPS?


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tingletechtoday at 2:06 PM

I think the author is distributing a web app that is run by hobbyists with a lot of esoteric home labs?

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sam_lowry_today at 1:36 PM

I think the author missed the root cause, which is the demise of (unencrypted) HTTP/1.1 connections.

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deltarholamdatoday at 2:06 PM

It's partially about how complicated modern Web services can be, and why so many people just give up and ship a Docker container. It's also about how agonizing over the details is sometimes just wasted because all of your users are just AI scrapers.

An art professor I knew used to say about overwrought paintings "too much sugar for a dime". Technical people are often prone to this as well.

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