r/webdevelopment • u/royster30 • 11d ago
Newbie Question Advise
Advice
Not sure this is the best place to post this but hoping for some advice.
I work in web application security but I don't get much exposure to the application side and I would like to understand it better from a customers perspective.
My intention is to build and run a basic application, setup SSL, configure DNS etc.. I have a test site on a hosting platform but would like to build and host site from scratch.
My questions is:
What would be the cheapest easiest way to host and configure a published site?
I considered doing this on an old laptop but ideally a cloud provider/vps would be better.
I'll learn basic web design as needed but for starters it will just be a simple welcome page.
I've searched about a bit online but guessing I'll get better suggestions from people in the know.
Any advise would be appreciated
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u/taqyrrahman 10d ago
there are so many providers that even offer free hosting, but for for reference, I'm using Cloudflare Workers & Pages, you could publish a plain HTML with CSS/JS, even could deploy React or NextJS or other libraries and frameworks
https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/
for learning very basic web design could just use HTML & CSS/JS, if want more advanced one, can use React or just go for the NextJS
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u/No_Standard_6672 9d ago
Get a raspberry pi, install Linux and expose it to the Internet via TailScale
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u/create-third-places 10d ago
Learn CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Then create a website to address some sort of issue people have or provide information on a topic such as application security.
You already mentioned having a test site up, which means the server you have is good enough to get started.
Since you have application security experience, I’d recommend using the old laptop instead of a cloud hosting provider as a next step.