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Jan 2018
52m 47s

Hosting & Servers — Heroku, Now, Galaxy,...

Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski - Full Stack Javascript Web Developers
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Show Notes

  • Take a drink every time Wes says exactly

01:10

03:50

  • The most basic hosting / services
  • WordPress.org, Medium, Wix, Squarespace

05:00

  • Your Cheap PHP/Apache Hosts
  • Endurance International Group owns most of the cheap web hosting world
  • cPanel
  • Bluehost doing shady stuff
  • Siteground seems p good

13:20

15:00

  • What does "spinning down" mean?
  • Deploying to these services

17:20

  • How these services do instant cut-overs to new servers
  • SSL Certificates

20:00

29:00

32:00

38:20

40:00

  • SPA Apps - React, Angular, Vue...
  • How to handle Routing
  • Netlify

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