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Re:Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site? by dajomu on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:15PM (#6203422)
I just signed up for a Heroku free account, so I may well give this a go.... I'd like to do some experimentation. I want to pick the most fun/difficult way to do this if I can.
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Re:Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site? by elclanrs on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:19PM (#6203435)
If you want a good challenge, get a private VPS for $5/month and set everything up yourself: SSH, Apache, users, permissions, Git repo, etc...
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Re:Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site? by dajomu on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:29PM (#6203472)
That's bloody tempting, can I do that through Heroku?
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Re:Ask HN: How/where should I host my personal site? by elclanrs on Monday August 12, 2013 @11:55PM (#6203914)
I don't think so. Heroku is a PaaS (Platform as a Service). You can connect with SSH but everything is mostly set-up for you already but I don't have Heroku so I'm not sure. A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is just a remote computer typically with a bare Linux installation, and you build up from there and install what you need, Ruby, Node, PHP... Check https://www.digitalocean.com/, they're pretty popular.
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