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Anon can't go home again
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this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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how did people in the 2000s afford web servers and domains ?
it seemed like everyone had their own site, my idiot child mind thought that it must be free
it was free. Geocities was free. Domains were (still are mostly) cheap. For simple web hostings there were (and still are) lots of free options
Now you could host a website on a pi zero if you wanted to. Well, you could if you make a proper website and don't just download every JS library you can find to add a button.
if I ever make a website again, it will still static with manually coded html. I don't know js, I can only remember some css. Maybe I'll put some spinning 3d buttons gifs for fun.
I have used PHP as well for some but mostly stuff like display all the PNGs in this folder on this page. So that changing images in future if they provide updated ones is really easy. They usually loved that idea but most would rarely provided any. But for me it was fun to learn some PHP.
The rest was HTML/CSS. Maybe a very tiny bit of JS.
Domains are cheap but I swear they have the most fuck-ass interpretation of inflation out of any product. My $3CAD .live domain is now nearly $50CAD/yr. Still cheap but why
My .house was 35usd first two years, now is like 60usd
And having some web space is not that expensive either. I am not even close to using the cheapest options, but it costs me about 80€/year to run the space I use for my small hobby forum (I will not doxx myself), and some other things. Depending on what your income, and other hobbies are, that is peanuts.
they cost like 10-20 bucks a month to run. i used to run a hosted website and it was like 5 bucks a month.
Not free, but not expensive either.
It wasn't that expensive if you used shared hosting.