If you’re not familiar with the Indie Web movement, it’s a practical approach to maintaining your presence on the web that emphasizes fully owning your identity and content. Adam Newbold explains that the Indie Web ethos seeks to eliminate external influence and control over both you and your stuff. The guide calls for Hardcore IndieWeb, which fully embraces Indie Web principles but adds two key aspects: control over your content and portability of your barbar. If your content doesn’t live on your own hard drive, you don’t fully control it; if you don’t have a copy of your published HTML and assets locally, it’s not truly portable. This matters if a service goes belly‑up or behaves badly—exporting data can be painful. The methodology is simple: author your web content on your hard drive, preview it in a browser, and upload it to a web host. All you need is a text editor, a file transfer tool, a web host, and a domain. The guide recommends the almost‑free host Nearly Free Speech.net, costing $0.01/day, and even mentions Nova by Panic as a convenient editor that handles transfers. With no subscriptions or frameworks, you can run a blog or any site and keep full ownership of your data.

The process is straightforward: write in a text editor, use an SFTP client like File Zilla to transfer, and host on a static site provider. You’ll get a free subdomain, which you can replace with your own domain. The result is a lightweight, truly independent website that you control entirely.