title image of a trail

Linode Web Hosting

I don’t know exactly when I decided to switch to Linode for Web Hosting - I can’t pinpoint the day or anything, but certainly I remember WHY I did it. But let’s back up a bit. Since I started coding (which seems AGES ago, but arguably for real that was in the last nine months) I wanted a webpage or website that I made accessible for the public - either via my Synology or a proper domain. Now, as you could read here, our ISP does not have public IPs available (and is currently still working on providing IPv6 addresses) which makes a pbulicly accessible solution for web hosting via the Synology no possible. So what I instead did was just tinker with web page building on localhost (I first installed XAMPP after reading about it in Paul McFedries’ book and ran simple index.html files there), basically just exercising clunky html writing, early style sheet stuff etc. ...

November 25, 2022 · 6 min · 1176 words · jmchor