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The No Jargon Guide – Article 2 – Making your first Website Live

lauracharvey on August 04, 2020

Table Of Contents Introduction About this Blog Notes for the Reader The Real Juicy Stuff How Do I Deploy my Site? Understand the Deta...
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Waylon Walker • Edited

Great article @lauracharvey . There are so many great hosting platforms these days that make it so easy to get started with your own presence on the web. I have used Netlify, vercel, github pages, heroku, and digital ocean. They are all great.

It's really important to get in a rhythm of deploying things and have a good grasp of the full process early on as you are learning. It helps to form good habits about how you structure your projects.

Now that you have lauracharvey.dev/ you can deploy anything you want for free on a subdomain.

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lauracharvey

Thanks for the feedback!! Subdomain 🤔 brb checking with my mate google

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Waylon Walker • Edited

It would be like

super-amazing.lauracharvey.dev

Once you have your dns settings already configured with a hosting provider, adding sub-domains is super simple. I think netlify might even take care of all of it for you. I was looking at the last couple that I did and don't see any records on my dns provider.

Otherwise if your hosting provider does not take care of it automatically you can set up a CNAME with your registrar.

Here is one that I had setup for myself.
came on google domains

👆 this one sets up default-kedro-157.waylonwalker.com/

Especially with the simplicity of deploying to netlify you can go bananas releasing toy projects almost as easy as a code pen, and have a nice url.

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Ash

Great article, thanks for sharing! I always used Heroku for uni or personal projects but I'm definitely liking Netlify better because Heroku's free tier goes to sleep so unfortunately it's not a good fit for a small but professional site like a portfolio. Great find Laura! I'll try it out.

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Andrew Baisden

Good article I enjoyed reading it. I started off with HostGator before moving my website to Vercel (formerly Zeit). And now it's on Netlify. I can't say that I miss cPanel at the moment 😁

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Gnio

You haven't failed to impress.

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lauracharvey

Good to know 😁

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Techie14

Thanks for sharing this detailed information with us. Hope will be able to get benefited of this :)

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Daniel Khromov

Great article! Personally I use Heroku and Repl.it for hosting database and websites for my school projects. They are free and beginner-friendly :)

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lauracharvey

Also good options 😊 thanks for the feedback!

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matoval

Can't wait to read through this!

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lauracharvey

Yay! Hope you enjoy it 😁

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Laura Jane

Well done Laura!! This is fab!

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lauracharvey

Thanks Laura ♥️