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title: "Self-host your website. Always."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/self-host-your-website-always--lleycb6o0
source_url: https://preslav.me/2022/09/19/always-self-host/
type: article
source: "Beam Bloggers Webring"
published: 2022-09-19T19:06:48.084Z
updated: 2022-09-19T19:06:48.083Z
tags: ["career"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 25
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# Self-host your website. Always.

**[Beam Bloggers Webring](https://daily.dev/sources/beambloggers)** · 1 min read · 25 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away. But don't wait up for success to come, it’s going to be a slog.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@muathye** · 1 upvotes

> I think github pages is enough you only need static site generator like vuepress or gatspy.

**@loftwah** · 1 upvotes

> I love this but it isn't entirely true. It is very easy for powers to censor you if they want because you rent your IP from an ISP, or cloud provider and you also lease your domain from a registrar, who has the power to shut you down too.

**@petercole** · 1 upvotes

> I don't understand the argument the author is trying to make here

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