Aydan<p>Hello anyone on fedi who knows about how to do web hosting 👋</p><p>I'm planning on setting up a domain and personal server for my website within the next year or so, but haven't found a resource that clicks yet. specifically I would like help with any of these questions:</p><p>1. when people talk about self-hosting, what do they mean? are they refering to hosting it on a remote network, on a local machine? what is self-hosting not?</p><p>2. whats the process from renting a domain name -> getting a simple http server serving files on it?</p><p>3. how do you do those subdomain thingies (eg a.host.domain, b.host.domain), is that the server's job?</p><p>4. how can you get both a static http server and a git interface that you can push to on different subdomains?</p><p>Where I'm at: know how to write/run server and client programs for LAN, can do html/css/js etc, learned about http headers but memory is hazy, heard of DNS and vaguely understand that its important</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/webhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhosting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/serverhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>serverhosting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>website</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a></p><p>is that enough tags?</p>