Tyler, I'm going to save this message with the link you provided, as I'm actually shopping around for dedicated servers to see what I can get for the best bang for my buck. This server you're using sounds actually like a damn good deal!
My question to you is, can they install Cent-OS on the server, and if so, would I have to install it myself, or do they have configurations with the license already included in the price that would also give me CPanel access? If so, then, I'm definitely! definitely! going to look into this. Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: Littlefield, Tyler To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:06 AM Subject: Re: Building a website, what's the best way? Hello: That’s actually pretty hard to do if you don’t have the experience. You have two options. Well, three actually. First, if you have a stable connection and a lot of bandwidth depending on your visitors and the type of content you serve, you -could- serve from home. You will need a dedicated system to do this and a good setup, as well as a static IP address. This really isn’t recommended but it’s doable. Second you have two choices. You could either get a VPS (virtual private server) or a dedicated server. VPS servers are ran by a company who runs multiple servers on one machine through virtualization technology. They use KVM or xen and it’s really fast for most people. Prices range from $10+ depending on what you’re needing. I recommend two companies: http://linode.com and: http://digitalocean.com I’ve had good experience with both. Your second option and more expensive is to run a dedicated server. Mine currently runs $120 from: http://arpnetworks.com Specs are: 1 1 tb platter drive 16 gb ram 3.4 GHZ quad core intel zeon. You would generally choose a dedicated server over a VPS when you exceed the resource limits. For example something with that configuration on Linode would probably not catch up to the 1 tb in storage I have and cost me way more. Now there’s a pitfall to all of this; you need to know Linux or BSD well (really well). I deal with security threats about once a week, optimize and work on my website based on visitors (I’m hosting a few others), etc. If you want your own email that’s another set of issues because you’ll be tuning things there. For example I just added some more stuff to my system to help deal with spam a lot better. It’s a time investment that you don’t have if you pay someone else to do it for you. Please let me know if you have any more general questions. Thanks, On Jun 23, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: 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 <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> 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. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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