I'm not sure about web hosting. But as for domain names, I use Google
Domains, it's $12 for a year.
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 7:53 AM trent shipley via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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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