Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

硬核 IndieWeb：每天仅需 0.01 美元，实现 100% 独立运营你的网站

Adam Newbold | July 18, 2026 Adam Newbold | 2026年7月18日

If you’re not familiar with the IndieWeb movement, it’s a practical approach to maintaining your presence on the web that emphasizes fully owning your identity and your content. This is especially relevant now, at a time when a growing number of corporations want to own and control those things for you. The IndieWeb ethos seeks to eliminate external influence and control over both you and your stuff. 如果你还不了解 IndieWeb 运动，它是一种维护个人网络形象的实践方法，强调完全拥有自己的身份和内容。在当下，越来越多的企业试图替你拥有并控制这些东西，这种理念显得尤为重要。IndieWeb 的精神旨在消除外部对你及其内容的干预和控制。

And as with any movement, there are a bunch of different services out there aiming to help you plug into this modern independent web. I even run one myself! But I always place my values over profit, so I don’t have any problem sharing the simple truth that you don’t need a fancy subscription blogging service to join the IndieWeb. 和任何运动一样，市面上有很多服务旨在帮助你接入这个现代化的独立网络。我自己甚至也运营着一个！但我始终将价值观置于利润之上，所以我很乐意分享一个简单的事实：你并不需要昂贵的订阅制博客服务来加入 IndieWeb。

In fact, when you use one of those services, you’re actually taking a step back from real independence, because your content often winds up living in someone else’s database on someone else’s server. They’ll tell you that’s OK because you can always export it whenever you’d like, in open formats, and of course that’s nice. But you still don’t fully own and control your content when you’re dependent on someone else’s service. 事实上，当你使用这些服务时，你反而是在远离真正的独立，因为你的内容往往最终存储在别人的数据库和服务器上。他们会告诉你没关系，因为你可以随时以开放格式导出数据，这当然很好。但只要你依赖于他人的服务，你就无法完全拥有和控制你的内容。

There’s nothing wrong with using those services, to be clear. And if you’re already using them and happy with them, that’s great! This guide isn’t for you. But if the idea of having complete independence and control over your content on the web is appealing to you, read on. Because that’s what Hardcore IndieWeb is all about. 明确一点，使用这些服务并没有错。如果你已经在用并且感到满意，那很好！本指南不适合你。但如果你对在网络上拥有完全的独立性和内容控制权感兴趣，请继续往下读。因为这正是“硬核 IndieWeb”的核心所在。

Defining Hardcore IndieWeb

定义“硬核 IndieWeb”

Hardcore IndieWeb fully embraces existing IndieWeb principles; there’s really nothing new or different there. The key aspects of Hardcore IndieWeb are control over your content and portability of your website: If your content doesn’t primarily exist on your own hard drive, you don’t fully control your content. If you don’t have a copy of your published HTML and web assets on your own hard drive, it’s not truly portable. “硬核 IndieWeb”完全拥抱现有的 IndieWeb 原则；它并没有什么新鲜或不同的地方。硬核 IndieWeb 的关键在于对内容的控制和网站的可移植性：如果你的内容不是主要存储在你自己的硬盘上，你就没有完全控制它。如果你没有在自己的硬盘上备份已发布的 HTML 和网页资源，它就不是真正可移植的。

Why does this matter? Consider what happens if the IndieWeb blogging service you’re using goes belly-up one day. Your ability to move to a new service depends entirely on your ability to export your data. What if you can’t export it? The service provider may have told you that you own your content, but what good does that do if you can’t access it? 这为什么重要？试想一下，如果你使用的 IndieWeb 博客服务某天倒闭了会怎样。你迁移到新服务的能力完全取决于你导出数据的能力。如果无法导出呢？服务提供商可能告诉过你，你拥有自己的内容，但如果你无法访问它，这又有什么意义呢？

From a portability standpoint, consider what happens if you discover that the owner of your IndieWeb blogging service has been outed as engaging in abhorrent behavior or just comes down with a major case of the ick (this has happened before!). Sure, you can export your data in an open format and move house. But now you have to find another service that can work with that format, or convert everything and adopt an entirely new set of tools or processes. And you have to move house, which is a major pain. 从可移植性的角度来看，如果你发现你的 IndieWeb 博客服务所有者被曝出有令人厌恶的行为，或者仅仅是因为某种原因让你感到反感（这种情况以前发生过！），会发生什么？当然，你可以以开放格式导出数据并搬家。但现在你必须找到另一个支持该格式的服务，或者转换所有内容并采用一套全新的工具或流程。而且你必须搬家，这非常麻烦。

If you follow Hardcore IndieWeb, neither of these situations can affect you. Your content remains completely under your own control at all times, and your website exists in a fully published format at all times. The independence is tangible, and you can benefit from it whenever necessary. 如果你遵循“硬核 IndieWeb”，这两种情况都不会影响你。你的内容始终完全由你掌控，你的网站也始终以完全发布的状态存在。这种独立性是实实在在的，你可以在任何必要的时候从中受益。

The methodology

方法论

In many ways—no, actually, in every way—Hardcore IndieWeb mirrors the very same web publishing practices that were used in the 90s when the web was brand new. These were things that I did back then myself, every day, and they worked great! And they still work today, of course, but few people would recognize the approach because we’re now multiple levels deep in hybrid SaaS CMS/SSG solutions tethered to half a dozen markup languages and twice as many template systems. 在许多方面——不，实际上是在所有方面——“硬核 IndieWeb”都复刻了 90 年代互联网刚诞生时所使用的网页发布实践。这些是我当年每天都在做的事情，而且效果很好！当然，它们今天依然有效，但很少有人能认出这种方法，因为我们现在深陷于各种混合 SaaS CMS/SSG 解决方案中，被半打标记语言和两倍数量的模板系统所束缚。

We’re living in a messy and complex web right now, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The complexity is one choice, and the simplicity of Hardcore IndieWeb is a different choice. The process looks like this: Author your web content on your hard drive. Preview it in your web browser. When you’re happy with what you have, upload it to your web host. Repeat as often as you’d like. That’s it. It really is that simple. 我们现在生活在一个混乱而复杂的网络中，但情况不必如此。复杂是一种选择，而“硬核 IndieWeb”的简洁是另一种选择。流程如下：在你的硬盘上创作网页内容。在浏览器中预览。当你对结果满意时，将其上传到你的网络主机。根据需要重复此过程。就是这样。它真的就这么简单。

Besides a domain name, here’s what you’ll need: A text editor, a file transfer tool, a web host. Again, that’s all. You don’t need any other special software. No programming environments or IDEs, no frameworks or shells or CLI tools. And definitely no monthly subscriptions. 除了域名，你还需要：一个文本编辑器、一个文件传输工具、一个网络主机。再说一次，仅此而已。你不需要任何其他特殊软件。没有编程环境或 IDE，没有框架、Shell 或命令行工具。当然，更没有月度订阅。

In the next section, I’ll cover choosing these items, and I’ll suggest a very nice web host that literally only costs $0.01/day, which you can pay-as-you-go (so no subscription). (You do also need to know some HTML, but everyone can learn HTML. And in reality, you can get away with only knowing a few tags and largely copying and pasting, so don’t sweat it!) 在下一节中，我将介绍如何选择这些工具，并推荐一个非常好的网络主机，它每天的成本仅为 0.01 美元，而且你可以按需付费（所以没有订阅）。（你确实需要了解一些 HTML，但每个人都能学会。实际上，你只需要知道几个标签，大部分时间靠复制粘贴就能搞定，所以别担心！）

Getting Started

开始入门

First, you’ll need to find a text editor that you like. Hopefully you already have one, but if not, you can try different editors until you find one that works for you. (I use Nova by Panic, myself.) You can use virtually any editor, because it only needs to support saving files to your disk (and they all do that). 首先，你需要找到一个你喜欢的文本编辑器。希望你已经有一个了，如果没有，你可以尝试不同的编辑器，直到找到适合你的。（我自己使用的是 Panic 出品的 Nova。）你几乎可以使用任何编辑器，因为它只需要支持将文件保存到磁盘即可（它们都能做到）。

Then, you’ll need a way to transfer files. Part of the reason I use Nova as my editor is that it handles file transfers, too. But there are plenty of options out there. FileZilla is a nice cross-platform app. You can use anything that can transfer files over SSH (or the SFTP protocol). 然后，你需要一种传输文件的方法。我使用 Nova 作为编辑器的部分原因在于它也处理文件传输。但市面上有很多选择。FileZilla 是一个不错的跨平台应用。你可以使用任何可以通过 SSH（或 SFTP 协议）传输文件的工具。

Finally, you’ll need a place to host your web content. There are a zillion web hosts out there, all with various features and benefits. But for Hardcore IndieWeb, you only need the basics, and you don’t need to spend a lot of money at all. For just $0.01/day, you can run a static website at NearlyFreeSpeech.net, and that’s what I recommend. I’ve had an active account with them since 2008 and they’re awesome! You can use any web host you’d like, though. If you want to use NearlyFreeSpeech, go ahead and sign up, fund your account (you can kick things off with as little as $0.25), add a site (static, non-production), and you’re good. 最后，你需要一个地方来托管你的网页内容。市面上有无数的网络主机，各有各的功能和优势。但对于“硬核 IndieWeb”来说，你只需要最基础的功能，根本不需要花很多钱。每天只需 0.01 美元，你就可以在 NearlyFreeSpeech.net 上运行一个静态网站，这是我的推荐。我从 2008 年起就一直使用他们的服务，他们非常棒！当然，你可以使用任何你喜欢的网络主机。如果你想使用 NearlyFreeSpeech，直接去注册，充值（最低 0.25 美元即可开始），添加一个网站（静态、非生产环境），然后就可以了。