teach 1 day ago

Maybe should add "with Cloudflare Workers" to the headline

Because hosting a blog inside a subdirectory is like the most trivial webserver thing ever

  • taikon 1 day ago

    I wanted to but it said it exceeds the character limit

    • gnabgib 1 day ago

      Maybe(?): How to Host a Blog in a directory Instead of Subdomain with Cloudflare Workers

    • nomel 23 hours ago

      I was hoping this was a joke about storing your blog text AS the subdirectory name.

  • ahme 1 day ago

    Are we not just doing static html for blogs anymore?

    • cr125rider 1 day ago

      That doesn’t sound bloated enough. Too fast. Gonna give a user whiplash.

      • doublerabbit 23 hours ago

        .htaccess that rewrites the .txt to serve the file as an .html extension. With help from bash you then append a bootstrap v3 CSS library to all files.

        Using websockets for post updates this feeds in to a webview component powered by django that interacts with an Angular PHP parser using Wordpress as the database translation layer that a python daemon watches and dumps the wordpress entry back in to a text file.

        You then render this in to a shadow DOM with react and include Vue.js and Next.js to create a carousel and landing page boilerplate.

    • Bender 23 hours ago

      We could just enable auto-index and drop a bunch of .txt files into it.

    • sofixa 19 hours ago

      We are, but throwing the static HTML on a global CDN (like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc) makes things easier (nothing to maintain) and ensures that if we end up popular on HN or Reddit, there is no hug of death because the scale is infinite. Also, all of those have very generous free tiers, so it can cost nothing.

  • shmoe 23 hours ago

    also proof that everything old is new again at some point.

gnabgib 1 day ago

(2025) At the time (on a different domain, but not in a subdirectory) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050069

  • taikon 1 day ago

    Yes I switched the domain. But davidma.co redirects to davidma.org.

    • gnabgib 1 day ago

      It doesn't presently (maybe a config issue?) Cloudflare just never responds:

      > Connecting to www.davidma.co(more..)

      > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... (timeout)

erdaniels 21 hours ago

I'm not trying to be rude here, but this doesn't belong on this site. This is like posting documentation on CloudFlare for a tutorial that isn't remotely a feature.

Computer0 19 hours ago

I use a subdomain because I like it, and my goals are not aligned with the assumed goals of the article.

theturtle 1 day ago

This is somehow news? I was doing this 30 actual years ago.

Long before Google and Cloudflare stunk up the internet.