[Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Daniel Barrett
Thanks to everyone who suggested birthday gifts for my 9-year-old nephew. I wound up getting him a Raspberry Pi. (He's thrilled.) Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand in HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered for his site. However, he has no s

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett writes: Daniel> Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand in Daniel> HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered for his Daniel> site. However, he has no server to host the site. I'm thinking of Daniel> gi

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Rich Pieri
On 4/10/2016 12:58 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > transferring his HTML files. But is this the simplest solution? I'd > rather not maintain an additional Linode if I can help it. Add a virtual host to wherever you are hosting blazemonger? If you don't want to do that then maybe a t2.micro instance o

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Daniel Barrett
On April 10, 2016, Laura Conrad wrote: >Couldn't you just give him an account on some linode you're already >maintaining? Or whatever other web host you're using already. Thanks Laura. I thought of that too, but as he's only nine years old, I can't reasonably expect him to keep his password secur

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread David Kramer
I agree you should look at more "managed" environments with nice cpanels and one-button deployment of software like hostgator. Even if you go with their plan that has unlimited everything and multiple domain names it would be less than Linode. On 04/10/2016 01:19 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: On 4/1

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Daniel Barrett wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who suggested birthday gifts for my 9-year-old > nephew. I wound up getting him a Raspberry Pi. (He's thrilled.) > > Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand in > HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered fo

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Nuno Sucena Almeida
On 04/10/2016 01:53 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > I also have a separate shared hosting account with ~20 of my domains, > but if I gave him a SFTP login there, he'd have write access to all of > my files, not just his own little web site. You can create a chrooted sftp account that only has access t

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 04:07:09PM -0400, Nuno Sucena Almeida wrote: > On 04/10/2016 01:53 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > I also have a separate shared hosting account with ~20 of my domains, > > but if I gave him a SFTP login there, he'd have write access to all of > > my files, not just his own li

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Daniel" == Daniel Barrett writes: Daniel> On April 10, 2016, Laura Conrad wrote: >> Couldn't you just give him an account on some linode you're already >> maintaining? Or whatever other web host you're using already. Daniel> Thanks Laura. I thought of that too, but as he'

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Peter Olson
> On April 10, 2016 at 1:53 PM Daniel Barrett wrote: > > On April 10, 2016, Laura Conrad wrote: > >Couldn't you just give him an account on some linode you're already > >maintaining? Or whatever other web host you're using already. > > Thanks Laura. I thought of that too, but as he's only nine

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Rajiv Aaron Manglani
how about github pages? https://pages.github.com/ it's free to host public repos, serves plain html (or one of their templates), supports custom domains, and would also make him to learn and use version control (as useful as html). ___ Discuss mail

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Dreamhost is pretty cheap. It's not a virtual server, but they give you web hosting. (You can ssh your HTML up to your web directory.) DR On 04/10/2016 12:58 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: Thanks to everyone who suggested birthday gifts for my 9-year-old nephew. I wound up getting him a Raspber