Submitted by NotASquareSquare in advice

I want to set up a hosting server and web site for personal use. I am searching around on raddle.me and similar sites for their source code. I am complete noob at this. no clue what I am doing. no clue where to start. But hopefully with some time and determination, I'll get somewhere with this.

What sites and sources I could use for self hosted web server? Which OS is good for someone starting out? What should I be aware of when it goes online?

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lettuceLeafer wrote

I would say learning Google Fu will serve you extremely well. Even if raddle is a great resource for this kinda thing which it isn't the guides online r allways going to be way more through. And by Google Fu I mean the info u seek is findable with Google in almost certainly quicker and of higher quality than asking on raddle.

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moonlune wrote (edited )

If you're ready to pay 50$ a year you can get a vps host it for you, you'll be up and running in a few hours and will never need to see a terminal, eg this: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/web-hosting/

I'm poor and not a noob so I self host a static web page (basically my résumé) on a raspberry pi at home for the price of: inital cost 30$ (the rasperry pi) + ~10$ every year (the domain name).

If you're as noob as you say it'll probably take a few months to absorb all this information. Here's a quick list of stuff to look up:

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NotASquareSquare OP wrote

Thanks. I was searching for domain registrars or servers that wasn't like freedns.afraid.org. Ones more private like orangewebsite and hashbang.sh.

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