So You Want A Personal Website?
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This document discusses options for hosting a personal website, including using a home server, free web hosting, or paid shared hosting. Some key points covered are: - Hosting on a home server has the advantages of using existing equipment but risks downtime from ISP outages and requires setting up dynamic DNS for a public site. - Free shared web hosts have minimal costs but risk losing data if the hosting company goes out of business. - Paid shared hosting moves administration responsibilities to the hosting company and provides better uptime and infrastructure like T1 lines and data centers, but costs a monthly fee.
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So You Want A Personal Website?
- 1. So you want a personal website? Myles Braithwaite {xmpp:email}: me@mylesbraithwaite.com twitter: @mylesb
- 2. What do you want to do with you website?
- 3. Single Purpose Web Sites
- 4. • One purpose idea.
- 7. • Basic knowledge of HTML (You could use OpenOffice.org) • Almost any free web host.
- 9. • Content that is updated on a regular bases
- 10. kottke.org
- 11. • WordPress (http://wordpress.org) • Movable Type (http://movabletype.org) • PyBlosxom (http://pyblosxom.sf.net)
- 12. • Requires support for a dynamic language • Probably a database • Large communities for support and extensions • Well documented
- 13. But
- 15. • Technical documents • White papers • Searching is incredibly important.
- 16. Wikipedia
- 17. Design Explorations by 37signals
- 18. Document
- 19. Wiki’s • MediaWiki (http://mediawiki.org) • Used by Wikipedia • DokuWiki (http://dokuwiki.org) • Flat files (no dependency on a database)
- 20. • Plone (http://plone.org) • Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com)
- 21. Should I host my website with Home, Shared, etc.
- 22. Home Server
- 23. Advantages • You will already have a computer and a broadband internet connection. • Websites with little “media” have minimal bandwidth requirements.
- 24. Bell Sucks
- 25. Rogers Sucks
- 26. ISP in Canada Suck
- 27. Disadvantages • Bell and Rogers downtime is always an issue • Bell and Rogers don’t allow static IP addresses. • You will have to setup a Dynamic DNS • Or if your on Bell you could use a CNAME
- 28. Free Dynamic DNS Providers • FreeDNS (http://freedns.afraid.org) • DynDNS (http://dyndns.com)
- 30. Advantages • Minimal cost • Administration is someone else's job • But do daily/weekly/monthly backups just in case • T1, Data centre, etc.
- 31. Disadvantages • If the company goes bankrupt how will you get your data? • People on the internet are sketchy.