[Tutor] How to Create Webpage with Python

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:07 AM, John Cast <jdcast at stanford.edu> wrote:
> For future reference (assuming everything else goes well) how do I procure a
> more permanent server (i.e. one that doesn't run on my machine so that I can
> turn it off and still be able to visit my pages)?  I'm hearing Apache and so
> forth being thrown around (I've read up a little on it) but it seems those
> would still run on my local computer.
> What am I missing?

Apache is a HTTP daemon, as in a piece of software that serves content
over HTTP.  It’s one of many HTTP daemons (web servers) on the market,
and perhaps the most popular one (other popular ones are nginx and
IIS)

But if you want to host persistently, you need to get an actual
server, a piece of hardware, that runs a HTTP daemon.  There are
basically three types of servers: shared (many people host their
websites on the same machine), VPS (virtual private server), and
dedicated (a machine only for you).  Shared servers are the cheapest,
and the best idea for small/static websites.  You can even find free
shared hosting services, like GitHub Pages
<https://pages.github.com/>, or ultra-cheap ones (like
<http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net/>).

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> wrote:
> The ones I use for my personal and professional use are webfaction.com and
> appengine.google.com.  I'm sure others can give more suggestions.

Both are services used for hosting webapps, not static websites.

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