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A good (and IMO essential) deployment addition would be to host it on a bare metal machine and run a quick apache/nginx server. It important that people still k

A good (and IMO essential) deployment addition would be to host it on a bare metal machine and run a quick apache/nginx server. It important that people still know how to host their own site, properly from scratch and without big tech.

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
Unfortunately this also requires a dynamic dns client and server if you have a residential IP address that can change.
- wallmountedtv 4y ago
  There are free "forever" VPS options from Google, Azure, and Oracle that you can use to deploy non-commercial servers. And together with either a free subdomain provider, or something like freenom to find a free domain registrar, you can have a fully free setup without using "no code" providers. Perfect to learn on without needing to use money.
  - noirscape 4y ago
    I'd rather recommend something like noip's free tier over Freenom btw. They're an incredibly skeezy company and if memory serves me right actually are one of the extremely few ccTLD registrars to get fined for mistreating customers (which is extremely uncommon, ccTLD registrars have kinda free range to do whatever they want generally speaking). In a more direct sense, they stole several domains from me about a decade ago by marking my account as abusive and then tried to resell those domains for ~6.24 euros to anyone else as a "premium" domain name (which I figured out when I made an alternate account) once they got some slight amounts of traffic. Very scummy. It's a free provider so these aren't unexpected shenanigans, but I'd still advise anyone looking for a registrar to not use Freenom. Go for a dynamic DNS provider instead if you're starting out, there's quite a few with free plans. If you're willing to throw a few bones for a proper domain name, I'd recommend Porkbun myself but there's other options too.
boyter 4y ago
I’d go with caddy. With a domain you get Cerys renewed for you without having to think. It’s what I do for my blog, and the config is very simple too.
bell-cot 4y ago
No. The article is (per the author) for non-tech folks to build themselves a personal web page. If they don't have easy access to ~free hosting at university_name.edu/~my_name to do that, then there are lots of cheap domain name registrars and good-enough-for-this hosting plans out there. Vs. the technical aptitude, knowledge, and ongoing time commitment of running their own bare-metal servers, for a minimal-traffic personal web page? That's more like insisting that everyone must learn to sew, and make their own clothing.
- skyfaller 4y ago
  I think it's still worth knowing how to host the website locally, even if it is only available on your local machine / LAN. Having to go through the deploy step and wait a couple minutes every time to view the tiniest changes is not very good, especially in the early stages of writing a website from scratch when you may be making a lot of mistakes. Since I use Hugo to build personal sites, running `hugo server` locally produces a local version of my website that I can view in my browser at localhost:1313/ and which auto-reloads with every change. Hugo builds incremental changes almost instantly.

TedDoesntTalk 4y ago

Unfortunately this also requires a dynamic dns client and server if you have a residential IP address that can change.

wallmountedtv 4y ago
There are free "forever" VPS options from Google, Azure, and Oracle that you can use to deploy non-commercial servers. And together with either a free subdomain provider, or something like freenom to find a free domain registrar, you can have a fully free setup without using "no code" providers. Perfect to learn on without needing to use money.
- noirscape 4y ago
  I'd rather recommend something like noip's free tier over Freenom btw. They're an incredibly skeezy company and if memory serves me right actually are one of the extremely few ccTLD registrars to get fined for mistreating customers (which is extremely uncommon, ccTLD registrars have kinda free range to do whatever they want generally speaking). In a more direct sense, they stole several domains from me about a decade ago by marking my account as abusive and then tried to resell those domains for ~6.24 euros to anyone else as a "premium" domain name (which I figured out when I made an alternate account) once they got some slight amounts of traffic. Very scummy. It's a free provider so these aren't unexpected shenanigans, but I'd still advise anyone looking for a registrar to not use Freenom. Go for a dynamic DNS provider instead if you're starting out, there's quite a few with free plans. If you're willing to throw a few bones for a proper domain name, I'd recommend Porkbun myself but there's other options too.

boyter 4y ago

I’d go with caddy. With a domain you get Cerys renewed for you without having to think. It’s what I do for my blog, and the config is very simple too.

bell-cot 4y ago

No. The article is (per the author) for non-tech folks to build themselves a personal web page. If they don't have easy access to ~free hosting at university_name.edu/~my_name to do that, then there are lots of cheap domain name registrars and good-enough-for-this hosting plans out there. Vs. the technical aptitude, knowledge, and ongoing time commitment of running their own bare-metal servers, for a minimal-traffic personal web page? That's more like insisting that everyone must learn to sew, and make their own clothing.

skyfaller 4y ago
I think it's still worth knowing how to host the website locally, even if it is only available on your local machine / LAN. Having to go through the deploy step and wait a couple minutes every time to view the tiniest changes is not very good, especially in the early stages of writing a website from scratch when you may be making a lot of mistakes. Since I use Hugo to build personal sites, running `hugo server` locally produces a local version of my website that I can view in my browser at localhost:1313/ and which auto-reloads with every change. Hugo builds incremental changes almost instantly.