free host with ability to add a Google Domains domain, secure https pw?

[John Benjamin]

I need a free way to host TW5, editable in browser and uploaded with tiddlyspot saver plugin, but secure password https, and I need a way to do it freely. Any ideas? With Github pages you have to use a different editor than edit directly as website. TiddlySpot doesn't have custom domain adding support of Google Domains and no secure password. Please help find a way to do it freely.

[Lost Admin]

I am not aware of a way to do this freely. You *might* be able to find some free hosting that supports PHP and install the PHP script that supports the tiddlyspot saver. But the ones I know of that could do this only give you https if you buy the cert through them and many only offer your custom domain in the for-pay service.

If you have the skills to set-up and maintain Linux (or FreeBSD in my case), you can get a pretty cheap VM that would handle a low-use TW5 site (say under 10 users). This is how I host my own with TLS and my own domain.

[TonyM]

To clarify, must you use the tiddlyspot saver, or do you just want a same or similar solution?

I may be in a position to host it for you for free in australia but with cloudflare cdn that should not be an issue.

What size and how many users do you expect?

My hosting service not only allows free lets encrypt but autoSSL, free ssl is more common now google and others insist on it.

You could also get your own subdomain from one of mine like something.online121.net or something.colabteam.net

I would ask for an optional or defered, setup donation for my time, with no ingoing fees unless your usage gets high. If you use $usd or euro the australian dollar is cheap with 20-40 aud donation in the ball park.

I would install it with the php saver and you can choose public or private. Ps there may be advantages when 5.1.18 is released.

Regards
Tony

[TonyM]

John

With google domain support I would need a little more clarification. I have full control of dns and zone files, just not sure what you want.

Regards
Tony

[J Mc]

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I hope someone else could look into this as a hosting option. It mentions hosting (pods) and servers (running Node Solid Server).

i presume that you could install Bob on the server.

The Evolution of Solid

Why the inventor of the World Wide Web needs to change the world, again.

https://solid.inrupt.com/about

Welcome to Solid

Solid was created by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Its mission is to reshape the web as we know it. Solid will foster a new breed of applications with capabilities above and beyond anything that exists today.

https://solid.inrupt.com/

Your pod is your personal storage space

Store anything you want in your own Solid POD. PODs are like secure USB sticks for the Web, that you can access from anywhere. When you give others access to parts of your POD, they can react to your photos and share their memories with you. You decide which things apps and people can see.

Think of your Solid POD as your own private website, except that your data interoperates with all your apps, which means you have your own personal API to go along with it. When you post comments or videos online, your friends can view them with whatever app they like, such as an album viewer or a social feed. It’s your data, that can be shaped in any way or form.

You can have as many PODs as you like, and they live on Solid enabled Web servers. Install the Solid Server on your own server at your home or workplace, or Get a Solid POD from a listed provider.

https://solid.inrupt.com/how-it-works

Installing and running Node Solid Server

The primary implementation offered of Solid is written in Javascript based on Node.js. It should run on versions later than version 8. It is being developed on Github and is released with the liberal MIT license to NPM. To give it a spin, you can download Node.js, including npm, and get it running quickly. We have an extensive module README that provides an overview of the many options of the server and is very useful a development environment. For a simple single-user production installation, we provide an example for Debian systems:

https://solid.inrupt.com/docs/installing-running-nss

Regards,

jmc

[TonyM]

JMC,

Thanks for that reference, interesting. It may not be relevant to multi-use (for update) cases as we need a server to deal with multi-user contention.

It is however an interesting  initiative, which I am yet to clarify how it differs from other cloud storage.

I respect Tim Berners-lee but I also see his name used is a marketing way too often, this seems however to be something of his.

Regards

Tony

[TonyM]

I have created a Public install of an empty Noteself tiddlywiki, I any one wants a play?

https://psat.solid.community/public/TiddlyWiki/NoteSelf.html

It only saves in your browser session

Regards

Tony

[J Mc]

Hi Tony,

thanks for setting up the Noteself TiddlyWiki, I'll have a play with it.

How easy was the set up process.

You mention servers, but as I understand it from my brief look at Solid, you can run your own servers.

There is an Example install: Solid Server on Debian GNU/Linux but I don't have Linux at present just windows.

https://solid.inrupt.com/docs/installing-running-nss

J Mc

[TonyM]

J Mc

If you look closely at the instructions you will see the solid server can or is installed in node js if I am correct, and node js can be installed on variouse platforms.

However I subscribed to the free solid conmunity account. Keep in mind that noteself can be put anywhere on line and changes are only saved in the browser unless you configure a couch db, so you need to host it, but not for saving.

I will continue researching it.

Regards
Tony

[J Mc]

Thanks Tony.

I'm going on holiday, so I don't know when I'll be able to take this further.

I'll try and keep an eye on your or anyone else's comments.

J Mc