Here you'll find the most common questions about my home server
The new (modern) version of the site is built on HTML5 and CSS3. It has a modern design and works well in all new browsers. But old browsers support it poorly or don't open it at all. So I made a second, "lightweight" version — so the site could open normally in practically any browser. There aren't many people with old browsers, but they do exist. And I personally found it interesting to make a site in the old style.
The hard drive contained information that existed in only one copy. On top of that, it's already very old. I'm a bit worried about a possible hack, so I decided not to risk it. Now I'm left with just the flash drive. I understand that with frequent writes it wears out faster, so in the near future I plan to replace it with an SSD. I don't have another external hard drive right now.
On a simple static site I don't see much point in JavaScript. Dropping it makes the site lighter, faster to load, and puts less load on both the server itself and the visitor's device. Maybe at some point in the future I'll add a little JS only to the modern version — for example, to have the player automatically stop when the user closes the video.
I don't need it every minute, but sometimes — yes. It is genuinely useful to me.
I don't know for sure yet. I'll figure something out and write about it here.
Thanks to AI I created the site much faster than I would have entirely on my own. I didn't track the exact time, but the first version (beta) took somewhere around 3–5 days. There was no old-browser version yet, and the site was quite rough.
The second question was definitely asked by someone. The rest I mostly made up myself.
Well, I do handle the site's git repo so-so, but in my opinion, I can afford to do that sometimes (though you have to know when and where).