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A simple LAMP stack is a good place to start, and a single droplet from DO or similar is plenty to play around with and standup a real internet-facing system. B
by ineedasername 5y ago
A simple LAMP stack is a good place to start, and a single droplet from DO or similar is plenty to play around with and standup a real internet-facing system. Bonus points for starting vanilla and installing & configuring the AMP portion from scratch, which is an excellent primer on the basics of system config & admin.
Get your hands a little dirtier installing a lightweight desktop environment like LXDE, programming language of choice & an IDE. Install VNC and you then have a cloud desktop you can code in from anywhere at the same time that it runs your personal website.
Cost: ~$5 per month and a bunch of good experience. Or just do it once as an exercise and cancel after a month.
- nyolfen 5y agooracle cloud's free tier is equivalent to DO's $5 droplets (they also have a second free tier offering with ARM cpu's, with up to 4 vcpu/24gb memory for free(!), but it's high-demand and difficult to get a slot)
- ineedasername 5y agoI'm afraid to touch anything Oracle for fear that a fleet of SUVs filled with teams of software auditors & a mobile law firm will show up on my doorstep with a $5M invoice and a lein on my house.