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Hosting yourself is painful

Denny — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:28:39 GMT

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It never was particularly easy to host your own Website. But these days, it is getting harder, I feel. I had this Website for many years, and once I moved to Google Cloud Hosting, it was just like five bucks a month, to have a small VM running Semantic MediaWiki, and all is fine.

The last few years, it is constantly overloaded, and I have repeatedly raised the VM capacity, and now I am somewhere around 30-40 bucks per month, and it is still completely overloaded. My assumption is, based on what I see otherwise, that inconsiderate AI crawlers are just massively hitting the page.

There's a way to download all the content easily! You don't have to crawl the page! I want to shout, but it's useless, no one will hear it.

I am already paying more than I want to for this. Taking two or three days off to move everything to a static site is probably the way forward, but that's also unfortunate. I'd really prefer to run SMW.

Gnah. I need either time, or someone to do it for me. But I am not even sure what I want to do. I would love to be able to publish through the Web, which is what the wiki is really good at. I would love to keep SMW. But also I would love to push my cost down to 10 bucks or less per month again.

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March 2026

Denny — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:21:13 GMT

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Abstract Wikipedia in Beta launch

Denny — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:12:18 GMT

April 2026

Denny — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:05:47 GMT

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Abstract Wikipedia in Beta launch

Denny — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:23:49 GMT

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Psst! It is a quiet launch. Abstract Wikipedia has launched in Beta. More information in the [https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-03-19 weekly Abstract Wikipedia newsletter].

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	Psst! It is a quiet launch. Abstract Wikipedia has launched in Beta. More information in the [https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-03-19 weekly Abstract Wikipedia newsletter].		Psst! It is a quiet launch. Abstract Wikipedia has launched in Beta. More information in the [https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-03-19 weekly Abstract Wikipedia newsletter].