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The internet is noisy, books are usually 200 pages too long and the most important ideas can be condensed into the essay format. Can you help curate the best?

I first asked this question on HN 688 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9476097 and since then, email newsletters have only gained popularity.

...Calacanis has gone all in on Newsletters with Inside.com, TheHustle.co newsletter is disrupting news for millennials, and Ben Thompson's paid Stratechery letter is making the 1,000 True Fans model work.

It seems that email will just keep on going.

Disclosure: I run Letterlist.com, which focuses on newsletter discovery. I ask because I'm obsessed with inbox publishing.

* feel free to substitute <useful> for interesting/ difficult/ practical/ powerful/ impressive/ your own adjective.

I still use Wordpress and shared hosting for most projects and microsites, simply because it's easiest and I'm not a developer. But I suspect there are better ways to do this in 2016/2017. Especially since I'm prepared to learn more.

Essentials: static hosting, custom domains, html, css, js Nice to have: php, FTP, markdown support

Am I missing out on AWS, Github, Digital Ocean, Heroku?

What are the pros and cons?

I'm thinking of tiny projects along the lines of single-function tools like domainr. But also game-changing ebooks, newsletters, courses.