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Neocities Blog
blog.neocities.org · Company blog · on HN since 2013
The Neocities blog covers the free web hosting service for personal sites, run by its founder, including IPFS, SSL and site tipping.
What HN saysHN commenters see Neocities as a mission-driven, open-source project rather than a commercial one. The founder posts in the thread, and the blog states its stance.
19HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage4 people · first shared 2013
- 2HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)3 people · 467 points · first shared 2017 · 216 comments on HN
- 3Making the web fun again (2013)2 people · 171 points · first shared 2023 · 80 comments on HN
- 4Introducing Neocities Site Tipping2 people · 45 points · first shared 2017 · 8 comments on HN
- 5IPFS: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web2 people · 8 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Making the Web Fun Again (2013)2 people · 5 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 7IPFS DNS Support2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 8Default ssl2 people · first shared 2016
- 9Huge space increase2 people · first shared 2023
- 10Cleaner Links for Web Pages1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11Introducing the Neocities CLI1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 12Neocities Is Blocked by Bing1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 13The Net Neutrality Supporters Plan1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14Feed.xml1 people · first shared 2017
- 15Making the web fun again1 people · first shared 2016
What HN people wrote when they linked it
e12e · 2026-06-05
It's back up again - so far no comment on the blog:
https://blog.neocities.org/
john-doe · 2021-03-28
From what I understand the motivation behind neocities is more political (humanist) than commercial. Also it's fully open-source (the data could easily be hosted anywhere else for cheap). You can read more about their stance on their blog: https://blog.neocities.org/
vanderZwan · 2016-11-24
You're welcome! I'm a happy supporter and have used it in the classroom as a no-fuss just-get-started option a few times.
(BTW, the list on https://blog.neocities.org/ seems outdated - it doesn't mention that SSL article for example)
> Well, except for the advertising one.
What about the five dollars per month one?
Bosence · 2013-06-28
http://blog.neocities.org/ points to it (incorrectly, but it tries), at least. I wonder if that's user created or not.
kyledrake · 2017-01-20
Hi! I started Neocities. I read HN regularly.
Neocities was actually launched and bootstrapped on HN about 3 years ago, and donations from HN users bankrolled the first year of operating it. Things have been going really well, the site is growing and still sustains it's own existence through donations and supporter accounts.
I still work on the site heavily. We're launching some big features soon (more space, Github webhook deploys, etc.). We just finished migrating to SSL (for everything, including hosted sites).
I've had to do some pretty crazy stuff to make the site work, some of which is not documented well and I think the HN crowd would find pretty interesting. For example, we figured out how to run our own global anycast network for "cheap". I would love to share how to do that with people, there is approximately zero information online or in books on operating anycast networks.
My new years resolution was to get better at writing about some of the crazy tech I've had to do for the site. If you're interested, there's an RSS feed you can subscribe to for our blog where it will be posted in the future: https://blog.neocities.org/feed.xml
Again, thanks go to HN. Site literally wouldn't exist without it, you were basically our seed investor. Feel free to ask me questions, I'll try to answer. That's something you're supposed to do with your investors, right?
benatkin · 2025-01-19
More importantly, these directions don't work anymore: https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/08/07/ipfs-dns-support
Tomte · 2023-01-12
Please do this:
> We’ll be doing some deep dives into our new infrastructure in the future, including discussing how we built our own anycast network
(https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase)
iamwil · 2018-03-03
I wanna say neocities already builds on top of IPFS. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2015/09/08/its-time-for-the-distribute…
douglasfshearer · 2017-09-12
Neocities [0] does all of this!
- It's free (though you can become a supporter and get some extra benefits) [1]
- It's fast, since it uses it's own CDN. [2]
- It's secure, all pages support SSL, even with custom domains. [3]
- It has a command line tool [4] that can be wrapped to automate upload of pages, or used in a Git hook.
- It has a plethora of learning resources [5].
[0] https://neocities.org
[1] https://neocities.org/supporter
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI
[3] https://blog.neocities.org/default-ssl.html
[4] https://neocities.org/cli
[5] https://neocities.org/tutorials