Forgot to mention, but maybe consider domain types that are not dot-com. XYZ is generally pretty cheap but you could shop around. I think you could do $5/year. Ramnode used to have a cheap vps option of $3/y. If you go the VPS route, Luke Smith on youtube has some informative and expeditious tutorial videos.
Jan 26, 2023 11:22:49 T Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>: > I have my site hosted by a ramnode vps and reserve my domain with namecheap. > I haven't had any complaints on either but I won't go out and endorse them. > If you're only worried about the python development end, you might consider > heroku for non-formal or educational project web application hosting. > Personally I found setting up nginx and reverse proxies kind of fun and > informative, but maybe that's an unnecessary time sink for your use case. > > Jan 25, 2023 07:53:33 trent shipley via PLUG-discuss > <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>: > >> I'm on the bench with my employer asd studying test driven development using >> Harry Precival's Test-Driven Development with Python. Percival uses a >> simple web site on Django as the practice or example project. In chapter 9 >> the baby website gets put on a real hosted web server. It needs to be an >> olde fashioned service where you have the freedom to do a lot of admin work. >> That is, you need to have enough rope to hang yourself. I also need a >> domain name and two sub-domain names. Price is important. I will probably >> finish the tutorial book and throw the site away instead of keeping it as a >> personal website. >> >> Has anyone got any suggestions for where to get a domain name and a hosting >> service? >> >> >> Trent >> >> >> >> >> *Choosing Where to Host Our Site* >> >> There are loads of different solutions out there these days, but they >> broadly fall into two camps: >> * >> Running your own (possibly virtual) server * >> Using a Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) offering like Heroku, OpenShift, or PythonAnywhere >> >> Particularly for small sites, a PaaS offers a lot of advantages, and I would >> definitely recommend looking into them. We’re not going to use a PaaS in >> this book however, for several reasons. Firstly, I have a conflict of >> interest, in that I think PythonAnywhere is the best, but then again I would >> say that because I work there. Secondly, all the PaaS offerings are quite >> different, and the procedures to deploy to each vary a lot — learning about >> one doesn’t necessarily tell you about the others. Any one of them might >> radically change their process or business model by the time you get to read >> this book. >> >> Instead, we’ll learn just a tiny bit of good old-fashioned server admin, >> including SSH and web server config. They’re unlikely to ever go away, and >> knowing a bit about them will get you some respect from all the grizzled >> dinosaurs out there. >> >> What I have done is to try to set up a server in such a way that’s a bit >> like the environment you get from a PaaS, so you should be able to apply the >> lessons >> >> Percival, Harry. Test-Driven Development with Python (pp. 263-264). O'Reilly >> Media. Kindle Edition. (2017) >> >> Or free at: https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/pages/book.html >> >>
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