JSJ 373: What Do You Need to Do to Get a Website Up?

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Panel

• Charles Max Wood
• Aimee Knight
• Chris Ferdinandi
• AJ O’Neal
• Joe Eames

Episode SummaryToday the panel discusses what is necessary to get a website up and how complicated or simple it needs to be. They mention different tools they like for static sites and ways to manage their builds and websites. They talk about why some people choose to host their websites and at what point the heavier tools become a concern. They discuss whan it is necessary to use those heavy tools. They caution listeners to beware of premature optimization, because sometimes businesses will take advantage of newer developers and make them think they need all these shiny bells and whistles, when there is a cheaper way to do it. It is important to keep the tools you work with simple and to learn them so that if you encounter a problem, you have some context and scope. The option of serverless website hosting is also discussed, as well as important things to know about servers.The panel discusses what drives up the price of a website and if it is worth it to switch to a cheaper alternative. They discuss the pros and cons of learning the platform yourself versus hiring a developer. The importance of recording the things that you do on your website is mentioned. Several of the panelists choose to do this by blogging so that if you search for a problem you can find ones you’ve solved in the past.Links

• Heroku
• Github Pages
• Netlify
• Eleventy
• DigitalOcean
• Lightsale
• Ubuntu
• Git clone
• Node static server
• Systemd script
• NGinx
• Cloud66
• Thinkster
• Gatsby
• Docker
• Gentoo
• How to schedule posts with a static website
• How to set up automatic deployment with Git with a vps
• Automating the deployment of your static site with Github and Hugo

Follow DevChat on Facebook and Twitter PicksCharles Max Wood:

• Microsoft build

Aimee Knight:

• Systems Thinking is as Important as Ever for New Coders

Chris Ferdinandi:

• Adrian Holivadi framework video
• Server Pilot

AJ O’Neal:

• Jeff Atwood tweet
• More on Stackflow Architecture
• Minio

Joe Eames:

• Miniature painting

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