So, you could do a few things. I guess my first question would be, do you
want to simply just host your own web site, or are you wanting to actually
gain customers in addition to your own site, and offer web hosting as well?
That would be my first question.
Ultimately though, you have several options.
Basically, you could do really one of two practical things:
1. You could set up a computer to act as your server, and then install
something like Linux. Granted, you'd have to then install the necessary
packages like apache, etc. unless you got a distro that already had them
included. Most server edition distros obviously do.
Again though, this would involve at least somewhat of a good bit of
knowledge of Unix/Linux in knowing how to configure things.
The other option would be to go through a hosting provider. No, they would
not be hosting your web site, you'd! still be doing that, but you'd
basically rent either monthly or anually from them a dedicated server.
You really don't want to be running a server off of a VPS. You can, but
it's really not recommended. Mainly because if you're going to host your
own stuff yourself, and totally manage it yourself, then you're going to
want as much resources as you can pull from the machine to be your own.
With a VPS, Virtual Private server, you're basically sharing the over all
server in the host's data center with other customers. This really isn't a
problem at all if you're trying to let the host take care of the
hosting/server management work for you, but since you say you're wanting to
do this yourself, then yeah.
The other thing that you need to also consider is, do you want to go through
ICan and be able to host your own TLD, toplevel domain. If so, then you'll
need to get qualified as a domain registrar. Generally, that process isn't
too, too difficult to do, but it can take a little work, and certainly a
teeny bit of processing time. It's generally fairly quick, but again, it is
the internet, so anything goes.
I'd be happy to discuss this with you further off list, if you'd like.
[email protected]
Have a delightful day!
Chris.
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From: "Donna Goodin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: Building a website, what's the best way?
Hi all,
I know this is way off topic, but this thread touched on something I've been
thinking about for a while. How would I go about being my own host? My
sites are currently hosted with a group called A2 Hosting, but I've been
wondering about hosting them myself.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:12 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
<[email protected]> wrote:
First you can play with HTML without buying anything. You can put text
edit in "plain text" mode and start writing your first html file. Then
load that in Safari to check your work. You'll just flip back and forth
adding stuff and reviewing. Once you've got the hang of HTML then I'd
start thinking about hosting and setting up a domain name. So in text
edit, before you create a new file go to preferences and set the format
radio button to Plain text. Name your file something ending in either .htm
or .html such as MyFirstWebPage.html and then you can start putting html
in there. Once you have saved that file somewhere you can open
MyFirstWebPage.html in Safari to review the results.
There are piles of free tutorials out there so just google around. Web
pages are generally three general buckets. HTML is the content with markup
sprinkled around to tell what the content is such as a paragraph, list or
table. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets where you can make, for example, all
the headings a certain font or add margin to paragraphs. The last most
complex bit is javascript which is code that can manipulate the content or
the styles, usually in reaction to user events such as mouse clicks or
keystrokes.
CB
On 6/22/15 6:29 PM, Nancy Badger wrote:
Hi,
I am thinking of building a very simple website. I have never done this
before. I have no idea how or where to start. I know I need to get a
domain name. How do I do this? Is there an accessible program to use one
building a website are there tutorials? Thanks for any help you can
provide.
Nancy
Nancy Badger, Ph.D
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services
UT Chattanooga
Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling
errors.
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