I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
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I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
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Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#2Good on you, your progress is amazing. If you want a job, you'll get it.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#3Brilliant. Good for you! Suggestion: add some contact information in your profile
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#4Wow, this is really inspiring. I see that she's hosting them all on her personal domain, but I have a question, if anyone has an answer. What's the easiest/most cost-effective way to host a large number of sites on different domains?
Learn how to use a VPS? Static pages with NearlyFreeSpeech? I've got a zillion ideas (and after seeing this, will be building them soon) but they need to be on separate domains. Paying $5/month or whatever for each is obviously not optimal.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#5Cool! That's DEF fun and creative!! :D
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#6I suppose the hardest part of doing something like this, at least for me, would be coming up with a list of ideas of exactly what to create - not just coming up with 180 things, but 180 things that I can reasonably expect to accomplish in one day. Did you come up with that list beforehand, or do you decide today what to do tomorrow, or something in between?
Some other random questions that come to mind - What's your daily schedule like during this period? How many hours do you typically spend on a single project? Are you also working during this period, or did you save up some money beforehand?
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#7Wow, this is really inspiring. I see that she's hosting them all on her personal domain, but I have a question, if anyone has an answer. What's the easiest/most cost-effective way to host a large number of sites on different domains? Learn how to use a VPS? Static pages with NearlyFreeSpeech? I've got a zillion ideas (and after seeing this, will be building them soon) but they need to be on separate domains. Paying $…
Leverage Apache with vhosts if you're dealing with dynamic websites, and if the sites are all static it might be even easier to host in a bunch of S3 buckets.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#8Wow, this is really inspiring. I see that she's hosting them all on her personal domain, but I have a question, if anyone has an answer. What's the easiest/most cost-effective way to host a large number of sites on different domains? Learn how to use a VPS? Static pages with NearlyFreeSpeech? I've got a zillion ideas (and after seeing this, will be building them soon) but they need to be on separate domains. Paying $…
If you're at all familiar with the command line / Linux, then VPS could be an easy way to go if you don't expect a lot of traffic. Nginx is easy to configure for this kind of thing: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11778085/1301376
The minor downside is that you'll be responsible for keeping your server up to date, but with a bit of upfront work you can mostly automate it.
Re: I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
#9Wow, this is really inspiring. I see that she's hosting them all on her personal domain, but I have a question, if anyone has an answer. What's the easiest/most cost-effective way to host a large number of sites on different domains? Learn how to use a VPS? Static pages with NearlyFreeSpeech? I've got a zillion ideas (and after seeing this, will be building them soon) but they need to be on separate domains. Paying $…
Get a VPS and learn how to use either Nginx and some of its configurable options, or Apache's "mass virtual hosting" mode http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html .
TLDR is "create a separate directory for each site with the directory being called the URL of the site" e.g. /var/htdocs/www.domain1.com has the web pages for http://www.domain1.com/ .
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#10Great job! Will stay tuned for the 65 days left!