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    Thread created on 15:59:59 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    Last replied 10:32:17 - 11/08/24 (4 months ago)

    Thanks for the feedback. I'll rename this as just web hosting so other people can see the resources you have shared 

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    Posted on 16:26:25 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    Why would torn have to do the free hosting? It seems like a potential disaster, and it might look like official endorsement.

     

    Instead I suggest you look at other free options. Personally I host most of my stuff either on my homeserver, or on a rented VPS, but for the unofficial API docs I use Vercel's free plan and don't reach 15% of my quota.

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    Posted on 17:37:18 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    What you describe could be covered by static site hosting such as Github Pages, Netlify, Vercel, AWS's free tier, etc. Why would you need Torn to do the same thing for you? Most of those companies also provide additional services for non-static pages, databases, et. al.

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    Posted on 18:28:49 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    DeKleineKobini [2114440]

    Why would torn have to do the free hosting? It seems like a potential disaster, and it might look like official endorsement.

     

    Instead I suggest you look at other free options. Personally I host most of my stuff either on my homeserver, or on a rented VPS, but for the unofficial API docs I use Vercel's free plan and don't reach 15% of my quota.

    Ok, and you just buy the domain name?

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    Posted on 18:52:09 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    DeKleineKobini [2114440]

    Why would torn have to do the free hosting? It seems like a potential disaster, and it might look like official endorsement.

     

    Instead I suggest you look at other free options. Personally I host most of my stuff either on my homeserver, or on a rented VPS, but for the unofficial API docs I use Vercel's free plan and don't reach 15% of my quota.

    DieselBlade [1701621]

    Ok, and you just buy the domain name?

    Either buy (usually very cheap ones), or the services provide one for free. Like Render - i have torndown.onrender.com

    Toolbox - a collection of my tools and spreadsheets made for Torn.

    Guidebook - a collection of guides i made for Torn.

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    Posted on 18:59:58 - 08/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    DeKleineKobini [2114440]

    Why would torn have to do the free hosting? It seems like a potential disaster, and it might look like official endorsement.

     

    Instead I suggest you look at other free options. Personally I host most of my stuff either on my homeserver, or on a rented VPS, but for the unofficial API docs I use Vercel's free plan and don't reach 15% of my quota.

    DieselBlade [1701621]

    Ok, and you just buy the domain name?

    I did buy my domain yeah, but vercel also provides me with tornapi-documentation.vercel.app for free. I have it set to redirect to my main domain, but I could very well use it as the main domain.

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    Posted on 09:57:55 - 11/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    Biggest drawback on this for me is that we could be running literally any code under Torn's domain.

    All it takes is for a couple of people to host copyrighted material, malware, or worse and it could put Torn in jeopardy

     

    Looking at domains, dieselbladetorn.cloud is something like, 3USD/year at the moment on NameCheap

     

     

    Or as DKK said, Vercel offer free hosting plans

    Heroku do 5USD/month plans

    AWS (don't use AWS) charges me something like, $15 a month for all the shit I host on there

     

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    Posted on 10:32:17 - 11/08/24 (4 months ago)
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    No. Just no. This is a security nightmare.

     

    Never under torn.com - the implications for XSS, Cookie fiddling and more and more are just too great... And that's only the vectors we understand and know of right this second...

     

    Buy a domain. They're £12/year for a .co.uk for example. Digital ocean have scalable droplets for cheap, or as others have mentioned there are other places that can host static content.

     

    AWS is a ballache, but their free tier could host something... and you could buy the domain through them... Google GCP is pretty cost-effective too... as is Azure... if you don't care about domains, you could setup something quick and dirty on an Azure package.

     

    But, unless it's a Torn Ltd/Inc/org whatever product... I would absolutely and vehemently object to anyone setting up 3rd party applications under a torn.com domain.

     

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