web hosting

I offer web hosting for individuals and small non-profit groups at no cost. There are two « options » :

• Bring-your-own-domain (recommended) — if you don't already have one, you can get one from a company like Cloudflare or Namecheap. "Free TLDs" are not allowed. You can have as many sites hosted as you have domains.
• Use a tilde page — that is to say, https://lmao.ch/~doa, https://lmao.ch/~cyckl, or https://lmao.ch/~YOURNAME. Four letters and smaller are reserved (see FAQ) — but you can ask for one anyways. You can only reserve one tilde page for now.

If this interests you, you can email me or find some other way to reach out. You will be asked to agree to the acceptable use policy below.

Acceptable use policy

I can only provide web hosting for as long as people behave. Therefore, everyone must follow the rules. You can read them in full here.

Expense sheet

This service, as aforementioned, is provided at no cost. It is not expensive to do this, but not cheap either. I do not have plans to raise funds to support this service and offers to provide funding will be rejected. Here is the full expense sheet every year.

FAQ

In case it was not obvious, click on the answer to expand it.

• Q : I don't like your Acceptable Use Policy. I thought I woke up in America !
  

  A : Then, kindly, f*ck off.

  The acceptable use policy is, in my humble opinion as its author, as fair as humanly and legally possible. Yes, I take some liberties to block stuff that aren't illegal in the server or my personal jurisdiction — porn, gore, proxy services, crypto, third-party ads and tracking — but that is because I want to uphold my ethics at the end of the day. If this is an issue for you, spin up an old computer and host your website on that — the only AUP you have to follow their is your ISP's.

• Q : How do I update my site ?
  

  A : One of two ways.

  In the beginning, the service was « gatekept » to techy people with uploads being done using rsync, a command-line tool used for transferring files. rsync is still available for those who want to use it. For those who aren't as savvy, you can now upload a compressed archive (like a .ZIP, .TAR, et al.) of your webroot to https://upload.doamatto.xyz. This tool is still being worked on and isn't perfect, but should make things a lot easier for people who aren't familiar with the command line.

• Q : How do I use my own domain ?
  

  A : By asking.

  While you wait for it to be setup, you can set a CNAME record for www.yourdomain.tld and an ALIAS/ANAME that points to fuecoco.doamatto.xyz. If your DNS provider doesn't support ALIAS/ANAME records, create an A record that points to 93.95.230.211.

• Q : Why should I use this instead of Carrd/Linktree/Potofume ?
  

  A : You shouldn't (with an asterisk).

  For those who expect a very easy to use web interface and are terrified of files on a computer, this is far from something you should use. Despite my willingness to teach, I can only do so much and those who aren't ready for that level of granularity and control are better off on those platforms.

• Q : Should I use Wix ?
  

  A : No.

  No.

• Q : Can you help me bring my Carrd/Linktree/Potofume over ?
  

  A : Yes (with an asterisk).

  For people who have fairly simple pages or don't care how it looks (which is to say, having it look like this), I don't mind taking care of it. For those who have more complex setups or want a certain look, I usually refer to commissioning me or some other web developer. You can get in touch with me to see if I'm currently accepting commissions. At this time, there's no quick way to modify these sites though, so bare with me until a solution is made.

• Q : What if I have a « fancy » Carrd/Linktree/Potofume and don't want to pay ?
  

  A : Know me first or be a worthy cause.

  If we're acquainted, I don't charge anything for this kind of thing. If you aren't but you're working on a good cause (do with that as you will), then I'll be open to doing so at no cost, but your mileage may vary.

• Q : What kind of uptime should I expect ?
  

  A : A human amount.

  I am only one person keeping this all working. There will be outages and issues, but I do my best to mitigate and minimise them as much as I can.

• Q : I'm a super cool power user ? What can you tell me ?
  

  A : Super cool things you wouldn't understand.

  If you ask (nicely), you can edit your site's Caddyfile to your heart's content (you can see the de facto for most anyone here). Outside of that, there's nothing fancy or exciting that hasn't already been disclosed elsewhere.

• Q : Super cool power user again — I lost my SSH keys.
  

  A : That's rough buddy.

  Send me an e-mail with your new keys and I'll update them when I get a chance.

• Q : So, why no four letters or smaller ?
  

  A : For several reasons.

  Unironically, so however. For one, people like to namesquat and short names are a common one to squat. For what it's worth, there are actual more rules to this than I mention elsewhere because they should be common sense : no typosquatting, no names that break the acceptable use policy, et al. As aforementioned, you are more than welcome to request one — commonly accepted requests are usually people who are friends, who are really well known by something short (like KSAN airport asking for /~san or Nice asking for /~nice), or people who can prove ownership of a sick domain (like national.shitposting.agency or SwissBit.ch)

• Q : I've got a not-so-frequently asked question.
  

  A : And I can somewhat-frequently answer it for you.

  I try to respond to inquiries in a reasonable matter. As aforementioned, you can email me or find some other way to reach out.