Comment by cxr
4 years ago
> 2. download https://mro.name/Linux-x86_64/shaarligo.cgi[...]
That doesn't sound like a static node to me, just another backend-heavy design.
Can I deploy this to GitHub Pages? NeoCities? Netlify (sans Functions)? If the answer is "no", then it really doesn't have anything to do with what I'm talking about.
If the target node can host static files it can serve as a mirror, if it can execute CGIs you can edit.
How do you tell 'backend-heavy'?
I don't understand your first sentence in your comment. (It doesn't parse).
> How do you tell 'backend-heavy'?
Is there something confusing about the litmus test I gave in the comment you're responding to? What are the steps for deploying this thing to NeoCities? How would I use this to operate a node at $WHATEVER.github.io (where $WHATEVER is the name of my account or organization)?
A host capable of executing CGI applications—making it an active participant (rather than a passive one)—is exactly what I mean by "backend-heavy".
> exactly what I mean by "backend-heavy".
so be it then – while a rapberry pi can run a primitive webserver plus CGI but the services you mention require datencenters, heavy stacks and lots of smallprint in the T&Cs. Backends with millions of LOC as trusted computing base.
Seems I target something different than you. The world is big enough for both, I guess. And paid shared hosting (with a legal claim then) is common in Europe (except among Cloud-Hipsters maybe).
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