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[ADVICE] Tips on creating a small website just to host links to pirated content I've translated (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by ZTetriminos@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I want to build a "pirate portfolio" of all my personal fan works. There's manga, anime, documentaries, book chapters, all sorts of things I've translated myself from Russian and English. Mostly Japanese, British and modern Russian content. No USA.

What do you guys think would be the best place to host the website? Not the content itself, which I plan on uploading to mega until I can afford to build a small home server.

I live in a "pirate-friendly" country (Brazil), but it won't make any difference if the website platform itself is located in a regulated country, am I right? They can have it taken down anyway.

I'm thinking of nothing special, even a simple rentry page, minimally customized, would do.

So, what do you guys think I should do to protect my website from being randomly taken down? How to post the links? Where to host the websites? Thanks!

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[–] Agathon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I were doing this and lived in a country that’s not hostile to piracy, I’d look up webhosting providers in my country. I’d then learn a little HTML and CSS at https://www.w3schools.com/html/ and just write pages in Notepad++ and upload them to the server.

If my host dumped me, it would be ridiculously simple to re-upload the files to a new host.

[–] ZTetriminos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good to know there's a way to keep an easy re-uploadable backup in case the site goes down. I hadn't thought about learning some HTML and CSS, thanks for the tip!

[–] Agathon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

HTML is pretty fun and easy. Here are some example websites that explain why an HTML+CSS site is a good idea.

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

And the drivatives:

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https://bestmotherfucking.website/

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/

https://thebestmotherfucking.website/

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

Once big tech starts to monitor everyone in the west using AI, Brazil will be the place to be... :)

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

What do you guys think would be the best place to host the website? Not the content itself, which I plan on uploading to mega until I can afford to build a small home server.

Please do not host a website on a home server. Let alone a piracy oriented one.

Unless you have strong knowledge of cybersecurity best practices AND keep up to date AND still use some form of CDN to mitigate DDOS attacks, you are begging for your home network to be compromised and/or to be DDOS';d to oblivion (and most ISPs will be fairly cross at that point). Also, if you DO have said knowledge then you have even more reasons to never do this

I also question the wisdom of making a portfolio of all the questionably legal shit you have done since a lot of the things that make Brazil "safe" for these kinds of activity (low purchasing power and nobody gives a fuck) also makes it easy to be made an example of with no repercussions. But... you do you.

[–] reboot6675@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

You can create a simple static website and deploy it to Vercel for free. You can buy a domain name and attach it pretty easily, but it's not needed (by default website will have .vercel.app domain).

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Voiture

[–] pythia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Onionshare.