Hosting yourself is painful
It never was particularly easy to host your own Website. But these days, it is getting harder, I feel. I had this Website for many years, and once I moved to Google Cloud Hosting, it was just like five bucks a month, to have a small VM running Semantic MediaWiki, and all is fine.
The last few years, it is constantly overloaded, and I have repeatedly raised the VM capacity, and now I am somewhere around 30-40 bucks per month, and it is still completely overloaded. My assumption is, based on what I see otherwise, that inconsiderate AI crawlers are just massively hitting the page.
There's a way to download all the content easily! You don't have to crawl the page! I want to shout, but it's useless, no one will hear it.
I am already paying more than I want to for this. Taking two or three days off to move everything to a static site is probably the way forward, but that's also unfortunate. I'd really prefer to run SMW.
Gnah. I need either time, or someone to do it for me. But I am not even sure what I want to do. I would love to be able to publish through the Web, which is what the wiki is really good at. I would love to keep SMW. But also I would love to push my cost down to 10 bucks or less per month again.
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