Cloud Computing Question

[Rick]

Hi,

Just a near-novice question as I'm just setting my first one up, and I'm asking here because even though audio isn't the object of the project, I don't want to dig in too deep and then find out I need to start over to get whatever software needs to run. I have enough problems switching between Win and OSX. Not keen on learning several different UNIX systems.

What's the best distribution to use for a webserver if you're a beginner and a long-time OSX user? I'm assuming I'll be setting up Apache at some point in the process, but like I said, this is a new game. Ideally whatever I get used to will also be useful for audio.
The first part of the project is just to move my own websites onto my own (for now) cloudbased server. After I get used to that I'm going to see if having my own in-house server is feasible. No cash is being invested so far, and maybe not at all.

Thanks in advance

Rick

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PlasticMusic

[Michael Gogins]

Possible approaches:

Use GitHub pages, if you have a public GitHub repository for your project, this will give you a Web site out of the box. But you would annoy GitHub if millions of people tried to access that site.

Buy a domain name and get a Web site started on a commercial Web hosting platform. Then the scaling is up to you and your Web hosting provider. This starts out being very cheap. Usually this comes with a whole lot of infrastructure, mostly pre-configured, including Web servers, Nodel.js, npm, PHP, databases, etc.

If your Web site is quite dynamic, i.e. acts like an application, consider using Node.js or one of its alternatives. You would essentially be writing the server in JavaScript or TypeScript.

If you have static Web sites and just need to develop them further on your computer before deploying them to a Web host you can use Python itself as a simple Web server on localhost.

I guess the main question here is, is your Web site static or dynamic? "Static" means the server hosts only files. Those files can do any amount of computation once they are running in someone's Web browser. "Dynamic" means that the server doesn't only host files, but runs code, sometimes generating pages, using databases, etc.

Regards,

Mike

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Michael Gogins
Irreducible Productions
http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com
Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com

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[David Ogborn]

Hi Rick,

I might recommend CentOS. I've gotten used to it because I have some servers managed by Research and High Performance Computing Services here at McMaster for quite a number of years. I believe they like it because it has a good security record? Even though in my situation there are devops professionals managing it, I think setting up a webserver with it is straightforward.

Yours truly,

David

[Rick]

Thanks y'all,

All useful suggestions. 

I've actually been running some kind of website or another since the late 90s. Always static but always free on various servers. 

In the past month my pages hit the monthly quota in 3 days.  I'm assuming this is bot/ai related as I'm usually leveling out about 20 hits a year on human traffic. 

I thought maybe getting used to some NIX or another would be useful and I could control the random bits better.  

Since I only know Linux systems through telnet-ing into them or uploading to already established web servers, I thought starting a simple cloud server might be a good way to learn my way around without buying any hardware.  

I would like to make sure that whatever I learn isn't media hostile or too clumsy.  

Hence checking here first before I get too deep 

Again, thanks 

Rick 

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[Zétény Nagy]

Hi Rick,

The Stable release of Debian has an absolutely excellent track record for stability and uptime-critical environments, such as server stuff, with extremely rigorous testing and quality control for package updates. I host my stuff on a Debian 13 server. I highly recommend it. The Arch Wiki is an excellent resource to get you up to speed on the usage of some utilities, while it’s for a different distribution, a lot of it applies to Debian as well. 

Best,

Zétény

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