Maybe 4 months ago I spun up a minimum droplet of on vcpu and 1Gb of RAM
and used it to create an Apache we server (LAMP). It kept crashing. I
upped the RAM to 2Gb and all went well. I was doing some light
PHP/MySql testing.
On 2023-01-26 08:46, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote:
https://m.do.co/c/6f0c38f7ef53 - referral code for DigitalOcean -
good for $200/for 60 days. After that, the $4/mo droplet (VPS) is good
for most simple development, and can scale up or down as needed (as
long as you don't increase the disk size). Anyone feel free to use it!
Disclaimer: I've worked on their backbone team since June of last
year, I do not get paid for referrals :)
As far as domain names, I go where it's cheapest for my throwaways,
used google domains for a bit, but I think that's defunct (shocker).
Best Regards,
-Thomas Scott
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 8:50 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
I have not heard of and unusual blacklisting of Bluehost.
On 2023-01-25 09:21, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 8:30 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi Trent,
First question is what is in your heart? Is the path you are
following
where you want to go? Do not read anything into my question. It
is
all
about you, and what you want to do.
I wanted to be an anthropologist (almost got a PhD), but
programming
is the next coolest thing, and until the AIs take over there are a
lot
more jobs and it pays better--even in a recession. :)
I would suggest Bluehost and get as many months as you may need.
I
know
they have a discount for new customers and I think you have to
buy a
year or more to get the discount - worth investigating. I think
they
use cPanel, which may or may not be of use to you.
Aren't Bluehost hosted sites often blacklisted? I need to get to
this
from my personal PC, plugged into my employer's internet.
Make sure you have shell access to your shared hosting server.
I would stay away from GoDaddy for the only reason of price. I
would
encourage you look at them and see how they stack up.
I used to buy my domains at GoDaddy until the price kept
increasing.
Now I am with NameSilo.
If you are not going to keep the website you might consider a
hypervisor
instead of shared hosting. Look at VirtualBox and Proxmox. By
using
a
virtualization software you can build your own server (good for
learning
and resume) and save a few bucks. It will take some time and
there
is a
learning curve.
So basically set up a guest as a server and then connect to the
guest
like it's a server on the public internet? My Mint development
environment is a guest on Windows. I am an 'occasional' Linux
and
FOSS user.
Also, I like programming and software engineering and I'm always
happy
when someone does the admin for me and tells me how they want the
app
to implement security. (That is admin is moderately fun, and
thinking
about security makes me more anxious and paranoid in general,
which is
unpleasant--so I'm even more happy to outsource as much of that as
I
can get away with.)
(My general observation as an almost qualified anthropologist is
that
security professionals, whether prison guards, police, or
cyber-security are more anxious and suspicious -- even paranoid
than
the population at large. I suspect they start a little bit more
anxious and suspicious [and it turns them on], then thinking about
and
coping with all the stuff bad actors can do to you all day long
makes
it ever so much more so.)
I recently configured Proxmox on a old piece hardware and am glad
I
did.
Keith
On 2023-01-25 07:53, trent shipley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
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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