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[asterroc]

Suppose I wanted to get a webpage. Suppose I know the URL I want and no one else has it. Suppose I also need server space to host the actual webpage. Now what?

Edit: Suppose it is for a professional website.

Originally posted on Dreamwidth. comments there. Comment here or there.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh I see how to get my Dropbox to give a link in the public files, the sample file in there has the following URL:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1284589/Top%20Secret.txt

If I use that though, is there a way that I can get it so that someone on my theoretical zandperl.com site won't see the link as a dropbox.com address but as a zandperl.com address instead?

I'd rather be editing separate .html files on my computer and uploading them, than dealing with templates on a blog site. What I really want is to just be ssh-ing into something that appears on my screen as zandperl.com .

[rosefox]

You are a very perplexing combination of power user and neophyte!

Dreamhost offers SSH access and I know lots of people who recommend them.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I have never hosted my own website, so I'm asking all sorts of newbie questions along those lines. I have always had space on a college/university server that I could access through text-based ssh, and once on a friend's server. Sometimes I chose to use a program that give me a drag-n-drop interface, but it was conceptually the same thing. My current school is the only one where I haven't been able to ssh in, and was forced to use a Microsoft product to interface with the server.

I do not want to use a blog template because I want to understand every line of .html code, even if I couldn't generate it independently. I am starting to learn .css, but I'm still really new at it so I can't understand most templates, and I like a very clean look anyway (where my sense of "clean" includes not wanting images as borders).

[rosefox]

I do not want to use a blog template because I want to understand every line of .html code

That's the thing that makes you a power user! Most people really couldn't care less.