Hello anyone on fedi who knows about how to do web hosting 👋
I'm planning on setting up a domain and personal server for my website within the next year or so, but haven't found a resource that clicks yet. specifically I would like help with any of these questions:
1. when people talk about self-hosting, what do they mean? are they refering to hosting it on a remote network, on a local machine? what is self-hosting not?
2. whats the process from renting a domain name -> getting a simple http server serving files on it?
3. how do you do those subdomain thingies (eg a.host.domain, b.host.domain), is that the server's job?
4. how can you get both a static http server and a git interface that you can push to on different subdomains?
Where I'm at: know how to write/run server and client programs for LAN, can do html/css/js etc, learned about http headers but memory is hazy, heard of DNS and vaguely understand that its important
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is that enough tags?