I just spent over 4 hours on digitalocean. I signed up. I was impressed
by reviews that it is good. It seem to be using the Amazon AWS
resources? not sure. Anyway I spent hours trying to figure it out.
First, I admit that I have not set up web sites in over 15 years, but I
manage over 10 web sites on Webfaction and they all work fine - until
recently when I can't seem to access files in a subfolder.
Digitalocean.com uses something they call 'projects', 'droplets' and
'spaces'. Sorry, but I guess I am too old and I have not kept up. Those
mean nothing to me. Projects I guess I can figure out. but droplets?
Google (my wonder answer to all questions) does not give me anything
that I can understand.
Spaces? I guess that is a 'space' on the server? I was able to set up a
'space' (whatever that is) and I could copy files to it using their
utility. All that is fairly obvious. After getting that far, i was able
to ask Google a question it could answer and I found other users who had
the same issue that I had. What I wanted was internet storage with a URL
that worked in a browser. Is that asking too much? Another 'answer' to
someone's question stated that there was no concept of a subfolder??
That simply makes no sense to me. So all the files must be in the root
of the space? crazy. I know I must be missing something.
Maybe I am getting too old for this stuff? I am a good programmer in fox
for over 30 years and I have designed over 20 web sites using hand coded
html including a web site for my kids middle school. It works on
Webfaction except for this new issue since they sold out to GoDaddy? You
would think I could get through all these new terms (new to me). I must
have read a dozen tutorials and websites with questions and answers and
it simply 'does not compute'.
If anyone else tries to use digitalocean for a simple html website and
is successful, I would like to know how, a link, anything that would help.
Ken
On 2/22/2019 12:45 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
Hi Ken,
I may have been one of those cheerleaders that steered you to Webfaction.
Webfaction was great back in the day, but over the past few years they seemed
to coast on their success. I'm no fan of GoDaddy - if they're the new owner,
then Webfaction is doomed.
Like Tracy, I've heard good things about Digital Ocean. Amazon AWS also offers
a competitively priced Webfaction equivalent called Lightsail. Let us know who
you finally end up with.
Malcolm
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