Improving support and how we talk about it
Looking back, it’s hard to believe we’ve been using our new subscription-based support system for almost eight months. Wow, time flies. Overall, we’ve been very happy with this change. We really enjoy...
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We’ve made some very big changes to the fundamental nature of our service. We now support persistent processes and delegating requests for your site to those processes using HTTP, SCGI, or FastCGI....
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How-To: Django on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
Now that our persistent process feature is out of beta, this is the first in a series of brief tutorials designed to show how to make use of the feature. In this example, we’ll deploy a minimal Django...
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Domain registration updates
We have a few small updates to announce with respect to domain registration. There will be some small price changes, both up and down. We are also adding support for registering some of the new...
View ArticleUpcoming updates, upgrades, and maintenance
We have accumulated some housekeeping tasks that we’ll be taking care of over the next couple of months. They’re all necessary things to make sure our service keeps running at its best, and though we...
View ArticleNew payment features, methods, and options
We’ve added a number of new payment features and options to our site designed to make things better for our members. This includes a new deposit form that allows arbitrary deposit amounts, the ability...
View ArticleICANN’s assault on personal and small business privacy
TLDR This post is extremely long and detailed and is on quite a dense subject. Here is the short version. Trouble is brewing. ICANN, the body that has a monopoly on domain registrations, is now...
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Unlimited free bandwidth!* (*Some limitations apply.)
We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes developing the next-generation of our core hosting technology, and we’re ready to move it to public testing. It has some exciting new features: TLS...
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Significant pricing updates are coming soon
I’ve started and stopped writing a bunch of posts over the past few weeks. Recent events have really crystallized some issues that we’ve been looking at for over a year. Those posts are largely...
View ArticleAct now: The latest effort to censor you (FOSTA) is here!
The US House of Representatives has just passed a bill called FOSTA (the “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act”). This bill is headed to the senate. It needs to be stopped. This bill is, as the name...
View ArticleMaintenance for Christmas
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are the lowest-usage days of the year (both in terms of member activity and in terms of visits to member sites), so we are going to roll out some core system upgrades...
View ArticleFree Speech in 2021
So, a bunch of people suddenly discovered they care deeply about free speech immediately after a handful of racists faced even mild consequences for plotting a literal insurrection. That does not...
View ArticleNearlyFreeSpeech.NET turns 20 today
The NearlyFreeSpeech.NET domain was registered on January 18, 2002. We’re 20 years old today. Wow! So much has changed between then and now. And so much hasn’t. Looking forward to the next 20!
View ArticleHey! What happened to 2023Q2?
You may have noticed that production sites with normal updates are being upgraded from 2022Q4 to 2023Q1, and non-production sites are being upgraded from 2023Q1 to 2023Q3. So what happened to 2023Q2?...
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Bigger, better, faster, more
I debated whether to write a humorous intro, but I’ve ultimately decided it’s more important to get succinct information out to everyone, so here’s the TLDR: Over the next few weeks, we will migrate...
View ArticleSmall Christmas upgrades
We’ve got a couple of small updates to announce today: One server type to rule them all? A forum facelift. The Kitchen Sink: One server type to rule them all? For quite some time, we have offered the...
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