Posts about web hosting

I'd been meaning to play around with Deno and finally got around to doing it in the quickest, easiest (and laziest) way possible -- using a minimal blog template. I also took the opportunity to learn how Deno Deploy works. The whole thing is quick and painless, here's how to do it.

Although I love using Netlify to host my site, for testing out sites and simple apps I have fallen in love with Surge.sh, a ridiculously simple web hosting solution that works entirely from the command line.

Getting started learning Amazon Web Services can be a bit intimidating. Once you've created your free account there's so many services on the AWS console that it can be overwhelming and confusing to figure out where to get started. So let's ease our way and start by just hosting a simple static website with AWS Amplify, it only takes a few minutes!

So you're learning web development, building things locally and only ever seeing your site or app when you run it on your computer. But how do you get this thing online so you can make sure it works on the interwebs? How do you learn headers, content-security-policy and CORS without having a site hosted online to work with? And how to do it FOR FREE?