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MilesAhead:
You can keep your own domain but host your (zipped) executable(s) on GitHub? Either directly in your repo or better yet as releases, let them foot the bill for the downloads :-)
-Lintalist (December 07, 2015, 11:38 AM)
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Thanks for the suggestion.   :Thmbsup:

MilesAhead:
I got an email from HawkHost support saying what they consider proof is just a note from me that I am the author/maintainer of the file in question.  Then they say I can keep the download on the page(presumably somebody tries the program to see if it is nasty I suppose.)  But that still doesn't address the issue of an ever growing list of self-appointed content guardians spewing slander.  Seems like there's a need for Congressional action.  Although this isn't the 60s/70s anymore and once that bear wakes up it might do something really counterproductive.

wraith808:
You can keep your own domain but host your (zipped) executable(s) on GitHub? Either directly in your repo or better yet as releases, let them foot the bill for the downloads :-)
-Lintalist (December 07, 2015, 11:38 AM)
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Thanks for the suggestion.   :Thmbsup:

-MilesAhead (December 07, 2015, 11:44 AM)
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That's actually a *really* good suggestion!

TaoPhoenix:
I got a complaint from my web hosting provider today about a download showing as malware.  I tried recompiling it with the latest version of AutoIt3 stable release.  It still trips VirusTotal.

Going through the list of zip files on my site it seems that quite a high percentage run afoul of one or more of the scanners that glom onto VirusTotal.  This leaves me with the choice to either chase my tail registering programs as false positives, in which case another scanner can just pop up out of the woodwork to make me endlessly submit this crap. Or I will have to only post source code.

The trouble with source code is include files.  If I use any routines written by someone else, now I am in the predicament of being dependent on their code availability, updates, breakage etc..

So the short of it is the handwriting on the wall seems to indicate the direction will be posting utilities in source code only written by myself that can be contained in a single file.

Since most people want to download things and use them, this will likely reduce to a fraction those who will use my programs.

Alternatively, I can continue to put stuff on Softpedia, and just chuck the web hosting.  But then I have no site of my own to point to.

Such fun giving stuff away ain't it?

It looks like as far as my own page goes, it will likely be that the surviving downloads will be single file source code in AHK.  I don't relish endlessly rescanning every executable I have hosted to see what passes VirusTotal that day.  More and more it seems the web is more hassle that it is worth.  It's nothing more than a shopping catalog it seems.  :(

-MilesAhead (December 07, 2015, 08:35 AM)
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Why don't you talk to Seraphim? He was my final choice for original co-winner of a project I did years ago of a "fantastically obvious metric that worked stunningly well" for free host quality. He's here because I suggested DC to him a while back. That metric was started on FreeWebHost.net and included one metric: "Stay running." But you'd be amazed because that was overrun by twerps who burst into view with Time Square grade sensory noise, only to fold like 2-8 months later.

And he's smart enough to know what a macro program is and help you figure ideas out.

The era of free web hosting is fading because people don't make their sites much anymore, they just glom onto "social media". But you're dead center of his original mission. He told me he's keeping at least a server or two around no matter what, so he has capacity, and he has decent tech skills to trouble shoot. And while "free" isn't a valid model anymore, since he's stuck with a sunk cost situation, I finally got a paycheck out of a project a lil' while back so I'll be sending him a little cash soon.

And because he's got the highest integrity etc, it might be worth mouser co-partnering him or something to make him one of maybe a couple "official" site "affiliated" hosts of DC just in case people don't want to put "half baked / ultra-pre-alpha" stuff on DC prime. Asudem, I'm looking at you! And it might make him happy to know at least a few users have a vetted free host source they can use. And he might get say five more users, and then his sunk cost server will have a purpose. And Deo, depends on how big your needs are, talk to him, unless you need wild cloud-y stuff, he will be willing to negotiate WAY less than what you were offered on your other host!



:)

MilesAhead:
@TaoPhoenix thanks for the suggestion.   :Thmbsup:

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