Terriffic point, Tyler. I guess I just figured that the power outage thing is something she would have already inferred, but you are right. It's worth mentionning. Good point.
Oh, and BTW, in another post, Tyler recommended Digital Ocean: http://www.digitalocean.com I strongly! strongly! would agree with him on this. Linode seemed to be a bit pricy for what I did, but what I love! about Digital Ocean is, you create your droplet, then you basically only pay for the amount of time you use it. So, in other words, let's say you got their lowest Linux based droplet. That's I think, like, $5, if I remember correctly? So, say you only used that server for 2 days powered on. I'd have to do the math, but basically, if you then destroyed that droplet after 2 days, then, out of the 30 day monthly charge, you'd only actually! have to pay for those 2 days you were up and running. It's Gr'r'r'rate! if you just need a server temporarily, or just want to benchmark something long enough to see how it would function. I'll give you a perfect example. Not that you're trying to do this, but, I wanted to see with certain specs how well hypothetically I could run Asterisk along with Nerdvittles Incrediblepbx. So, I created a droplet with those specs, logged in via SSH and installed Incrediblepbx, used it for about a day, realized I needed something a little more powerful, so destroied the droplet two days later, and bam! That was the end of it. I only paid for those two days, as aposed to the whole month. I think my final bill was only like maybe a dollar, if even that. Obviously, it would be more than that if you were trying to host a web site, as you'd want the server up all the time, and obviously wouldn't want your droplet destroyed, but my point is more just that Digital Ocean gives you that option in the first place. I don't think Linode does that, please correct me if I'm wrong, as I've not used them in ages. Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: Littlefield, Tyler To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 10:11 AM Subject: Re: Building a website, what's the best way? Two things I forgot to mention here. The speed you will probably want to pay close attention to is the upload speed. It’s usually about 20% of your download speed on most home connections (for a pretty good reason generally). You will be uploading content to your users who are downloading, so that’s the most important and will cost you to get higher. Second, if you are running anything at all of importance and say the cat kicks the tower, a storm takes your power out your site is down. Home connections are not assured they will be up 100% of the time. Hosts generally have servers in data centers where they have redundant internet links from multiple backbones as well as power generators on site to insure that in the case of power loss your site will stay up if possible. Many rack servers even have redundant power supplies and racks can (and usually do) have UPS systems mounted in the rack as well for more redundancy. HTH, On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Krysti .Power <happypuppy...@gmail.com> wrote: To check your speed go to www.speedtest.net On Jun 23, 2015 11:00 AM, "Krysti .Power" <happypuppy...@gmail.com> wrote: You need a decated computer needed to be left of all time time a static IP address good upload speed and have to see up port forwarding on your router On Jun 23, 2015 10:58 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. 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