[GTALUG] hobbyist web hosting recommendations?

Chris F.A. Johnson chris at cfajohnson.com
Mon Dec 21 16:42:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, 21 Dec 2015, John Moniz wrote:

> On 12/20/2015 09:19 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> On 12/20/2015 06:28 PM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
>>> I'm looking for web hosting, for my own projects... anyone have any
>>> recommendations?
>> Why not make your own?  A Linux box makes an excellent server.
> Making my own interests me, mainly for the experience. I'm not a computer guy 
> but did set up a file server for the house at one point and would like to do 
> it again. Adding a web server would be an interesting project, although it 
> might be too much for my skill level.

Most distros have a webserver installed, if not by default, then
selectable through whatever package management tool you use.

I have Apache running on the laptop I'm currently using as my main
machine. I develop my sites locally and then upload them to hostgator
when ready.

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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>


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