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376 sats \ 4 replies \ @midas 8 Sep 2023

Nice post! I've been creating content myself, and with a team, for about the same amount of time. But I've never really relied on tips, more on affiliate marketing to monetize my content.

I've just started thinking about getting into a more challenging project to "cut middlemen" now. Not really content-related. So, these are good insights, thanks.

Plus: I am wondering if any stacker has good recommendations on hosting?

I've been using Namecheap Shared for over 5 years. You can host several websites, and the support is great. The price is acceptable.

But for domain names, I've been using Namesilo, cheaper.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia OP 8 Sep 2023

I also used Namesilo, but their DNS server's update is quite slow. Then I moved to Namecheap for domains, but I would love to move everything to njalla eventually.

And thanks for sharing about Namecheap hosting experience:)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 8 Sep 2023

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia OP 8 Sep 2023

why would they jack someone else's domains at the risk of ruining their own reputations?

But thanks for the heads-up! I am using two domains with them so far, quite enjoyed the login and payment process 🤯

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nemo 8 Sep 2023

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55 sats \ 15 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

Plus: I am wondering if any stacker has good recommendations on hosting? I tried GoDaddy and Siteground before, but not so satisfied, DO is generally not bad but quite slow if you need to ask anything from them 🐌

100 sats \ 11 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

I use Linode (now part of Akamai) for my internal stuff (VPN including password manager, monitoring) because they allow to use recent Linux kernels (required for best experience with WireGuard VPN). I don't know if you have specific requirements but for me, Linode works well.

I only needed a not too old Linux kernel + not too expensive network IO rate.

Regarding support speed, I don't know but so far, I never needed to ask for help

20 sats \ 10 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

Thanks, let me look it up.

I have really simple needs, just to host some WP sites, not too expensive and timely communication if something goes wrong in the hosting. 🤯

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

Now I am also interested how fast they would reply.

I also use another hosting provider but that's a small one from Germany. I've been a customer there for years. But when I wanted to setup a WireGuard VPN, I noticed their kernels are quite old. So I then started to also use Linode.

But at delta, every question I had was answered within 24 hours, even by the founder himself :)

At first I thought I'm going to fully switch to Linode. But I am now emotionally attached to delta because of that good support, lol

I need to come up with some random question and see how fast and how Linode responds...

Maybe my question could just be: how fast do you respond? lol

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

I now just opened a new support ticket with the following:

Hi,

I was asked by a friend if I can recommend Linode. I said yes but they said it's important to them how fast their support responds.

I said I don't know since I never had to ask anything so far. So I got interested myself and thought, what should I ask to test response speed?

Since I have no question, I came up with the following idea: Please respond with the solution of 3 + 5.

Thank you!

lol

Edit: wait... I should have asked if they have a referral program, lol

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

🤣🤣 Good test!

New idea: why not slowly sort out all good digital products which are verified by plebs, for example, VPN like Mullvad, then make a page in SN, and each referral ( if it has) fueled back to the pool - more sats for everyone who contributed and saving time for newcomers do so much researching?

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

They replied 20 minutes ago:

Support Ticket 21177696 has been updated by mcrowe:

Hey there,

First and foremost since you haven't needed to contact us yet, welcome to Linode! I see its been almost 8 months since you initially created your account and we're happy to have you here.

I'll start with some guidelines you can expect with our Support Team while I crowd source a proper answer for your question from our Support Team. It's important to note that our Support Team responds to tickets in the order they are received so our response times can vary as we receive and close other tickets. With that being said, you can always give us a call and a member of our Support Team will answer the call and get started on your issue right away. There is a short recording when calling our Team, after which your call is delivered to a human Support Team member:

U.S. 855-454-6633 Global +1-609-380-7100 I also want to briefly mention our scope of support, which details issues we can directly help with. We solely troubleshoot, manage and monitor the infrastructure upon which your server resides. We don't have access to the internals of your server, issues such as editing the configuration of your server fall outside the Scope of Support. We're always happy to get you pointed in the right direction on out of scope issues though!

Since you mentioned your friend is looking to create an account I recommend you check out our referral program, because who doesn't like free credit on their Linode account? If you're interested in this offering, you can read about the details and process on the pages linked below:

https://www.linode.com/referral-program/ https://www.linode.com/docs/products/platform/billing/guides/referral-program/ Now for your question:

Please respond with the solution of 3 + 5

I got some really unique answers from our team, but I found the consensus of our team landed on the following for the best answer:

3+5= Gary Busey

I hope this has been helpful for your assessment of our Support Team's response and expectations, and please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns!

Regards, Mason

Please use https://cloud.linode.com/support/tickets/21177696 to respond to this ticket.

Linode Community: https://www.linode.com/community/ Linode System Status: https://status.linode.com/

This ticket will be closed if not updated within 96 hours.

Thank you, Linode

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

Quite efficient and thoughtful too 🤣 Thanks again - I would take it into my weekend fun to check.

And why 3+5= Gary Busey?

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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

So they at least are able to respond within one hour, lol

why not slowly sort out all good digital products which are verified by plebs, for example, VPN like Mullvad, then make a page in SN, and each referral ( if it has) fueled back to the pool - more sats for everyone who contributed and saving time for newcomers do so much researching?

One answer to "why not" is always "time and priorities" :)

With referrals you mean that all products which have a referral program would be referred by SN, no matter which pleb verified the product for us or is vouching for it? So any financial advantage we get from this referral program would be put back into the pool by us?

I think it's better if we make old but gold content easier to discover. If we also would allow infinite editing of posts, any community member could maintain such a list :)

I think such an approach would maximize potential use cases with minimal effort, lol

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinbreakdown 7 Sep 2023

https://njal.la

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BBitcoinUSA 7 Sep 2023

I’ve seen namecheap.com recommended in several places, but I don’t have any personal experience using it. Lmk if you or anyone else has any opinion on it…?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

I think Namecheap is only good for domains?

Btw, if anyone is looking for where to buy domains with Bitcoin, njalla is great.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @TresDMan 28 Mar

Thank you for sharing this. I've just begun exploring Stacker and Alby, and your framing of things seems very accessible to me, who has just come from the "regular" social media world. So much to learn! I hope to be reading more of your stuff soon.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 29 Mar

welcome to SN!

100 sats \ 6 replies \ @0330830bf9 7 Sep 2023

Video content earns well on Lightning.Video

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

The follow-up article would be about different fun LN apps or sites, but the approach of Lightning.Video is not V4V. Putting a paywall like this isn't encouraging more people to make eyeball-grabbing content just to scam others to pay and watch?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @0330830bf9 7 Sep 2023

No, the paywall is optional. The reactions/zaps and paid comments are V4V and you get a Lightning address.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

Oh okay, but I remembered last time I checked there is full of unhealthy contents 🥸

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @0330830bf9 7 Sep 2023

That's what freedom from censorship looks like. They are a video host though, so you can just embed the player into your own page or send people to your channel.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

That's what freedom from censorship looks like

did you ever wonder about why the quality of SN is so good, yet many new platforms are full of junk? 🤔

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @0330830bf9 7 Sep 2023

No thumbnail images, a retvrn to topics of text. Like BBB's of old, a true discussion board.

If they ever add image thumbnails it'll go to shit quickly. Just like reddit.

But if doesn't it'll stay niche.

So the best tools will work within your own namespace.

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 7 Sep 2023

What about zaprite?

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

I once attempted to use Zaprite to pay someone but ended up sending it directly. Let me play around with it again - it seems they just launched the payment link feature, almost like the one-click payment in Stripe 👀

—— Edit

I think Zaprite is good for sites with individual products like people would either click this or that, but if people would buy more than one product, I think the combination "WordPress with WooCommerce and payment with BTCpay hosting with Voltage" still wins.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 7 Sep 2023

Ahh thanks for the insight.

100 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

One more detail to share: I put different addresses at different places just to understand where people are paying more attention or where is working as feedback.

Clever! But then you need to consolidate sometimes, right?

I feel like one unsolved problem is sats spread around in too many different wallets.

I have some sats in several LNbits wallets, some sats on SN, some sats on Alby, some sats on Satlantis etc.

709 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

Thanks, that would be a good problem to have when I stack a significant amount of sats! 🤓

But some thought experiment - it would be nice if

When above x amount, then send a mail to notify
When above x amount , then trigger an invoice and send it to xx address

Like a zapier in the lightning world.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 7 Sep 2023

Thanks, that would be a good problem to have when I stack a significant amount of sats! 🤓

More sats = more problems. I guess I just sent you 235 things to worry about, lol

We need to be shepherds for our little precious sats

But some thought experiment - it would be nice

When above x amount, then send an mail to notify

When above x amount , then trigger an invoice and send it to xx wallet Like a zapier in the lightning world.

And great ideas! They even sound very simple to implement

500 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

More sats = more problems = more problem solving = opportunities to provide value for others = stack more sats ♻️

My pleasure to lay out cool ideas 🫡

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 7 Sep 2023

Reminds me of the email address alias trick to monitor who is selling your contact information 😛

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia OP 7 Sep 2023

yes, I am also using a good tool for it : simplelogin 😎

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zorba 10 Sep 2023

Nice work

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SovranSystems 8 Sep 2023

Great write up! Thanks for sharing. This inspires us to keep doing what we do at Sovran Systems. We all find our path to self-hosting in different ways with all the cool software out there.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SaToSHiWoMaN 4 Mar outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.