I figured out the solution to the issue I had. (with the help of
Webfaction support). I had deleted a critical file. Everything seems to
be working now. They need a 'user interface' to help set up web sites.
Maybe they do have it, I don't know. I have always designed everything
while working in M$ Windows and then FileZilla client to copy files to
WebFaction.
On 2/23/2019 6:46 PM, Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
If you just want to do simple websites - have you considered Wix? I
don't use it - but, I think I have heard good things about it!
-K-
On 2/23/2019 6:20 PM, Ken McGinnis wrote:
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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