I'm glad I did. All of my websites with domains now run off of a little Droplet running a bodgy bit of software I made called "Run my stuff" it does that, runs my websites, tunnels it through ngnix, and uses CloudFlare to bring it to the internet.
oh hi, I'm the guy who made that site. Read through a couple comments here and want to elaborate:
- I've currently moved everything to a cheap DigitalOcean droplet that works wonders for me, and is far cheaper than what Replit could offer
- Comments about me & other noreplit.com contributors being "entitled" is odd to me. Nothing is ever free, but a service we paid for being switched to something that costs tons more than the competition, and suddenly, isn't great.
- Replit has stopped community events such as their Reps program, all hackathons (not AI related, at least), and have abandoned their 16k+ member Discord server in exchange for a barely active discourse site.
- "That’s the impression I got looking at the dev behind this site. They clearly have development experience, they’re just mad and trying to make as much noise about it as they can." That was never my intention. Many people are mad about it, but the only thing I've personally done recently is created the website with the help of a few other folks. Forums such as this one aren't created by me.
- I'm not broke. I have about ~$5k in my bank account at the moment, but I'm not willing to let that go to waste. Beforehand, I was fine to pay $7/month for my silly little projects to have "good enough" uptime, as I think should be true for all hobby projects. It doesn't make sense for me to spend tons more for a little more reliability when I can just spend a day or two migrating, that I did.
- The domain was $15 for the year and isn't on auto-renew.
Replit simply changed their business model to not favour youngins that don't have a slightest clue what a vCPU even means, after they seemed they wanted to support that. So we're a bit pissed having to move our shit, but all is well in the end.
