Hello!
I started using the personal hosting service a while ago and have a nice little domain setup. However, I seem to be in the stuck case of not really knowing exactly how to use it effectively. I'm a software developer by trade and know the ropes when it comes to the mobile realm, but I feel like I'm really missing the basics here.
For some context, I'd like to write up a simple personal blog with all the fancy stuff one would expect, which wouldn't be so hard to do with static content. I've slapped together HTML and CSS before with crude-depictions of what could be said to be Javascript for good measure, but at the moment, I'm trying to be a little fancier with something dynamic. Ideally, I'd like to be able to use some sort of running application (Python + Flask, Kotlin + Ktor, etc.) that I can run on the hosting machine and have it serve up pages dynamically, take in form responses, that kind of thing. Still just basic HTML/CSS, but programmatically served.
However, I don't really know.. how to do that in this case. It looks like I have a directory I can put stuff into which ends up being served when I hit my domain, but I don't know how to go about listening to that traffic. In fact, I'm more than a little ashamed I'm not even sure if what I'm describing is a good way to think about what I'm trying to do.
So that's about it - thoughts? Is this a use case best served in some other way?
A great many thanks in advance for your time and patience, wherever and whoever you are, in helping a struggling dev!
Quick edit: I'm at the point where I have shell access enabled, have myself setup to pull code down from a remote repo and run some basic Python scripts. Beyond that, `INDEX.HTML` is my only code.
I started using the personal hosting service a while ago and have a nice little domain setup. However, I seem to be in the stuck case of not really knowing exactly how to use it effectively. I'm a software developer by trade and know the ropes when it comes to the mobile realm, but I feel like I'm really missing the basics here.
For some context, I'd like to write up a simple personal blog with all the fancy stuff one would expect, which wouldn't be so hard to do with static content. I've slapped together HTML and CSS before with crude-depictions of what could be said to be Javascript for good measure, but at the moment, I'm trying to be a little fancier with something dynamic. Ideally, I'd like to be able to use some sort of running application (Python + Flask, Kotlin + Ktor, etc.) that I can run on the hosting machine and have it serve up pages dynamically, take in form responses, that kind of thing. Still just basic HTML/CSS, but programmatically served.
However, I don't really know.. how to do that in this case. It looks like I have a directory I can put stuff into which ends up being served when I hit my domain, but I don't know how to go about listening to that traffic. In fact, I'm more than a little ashamed I'm not even sure if what I'm describing is a good way to think about what I'm trying to do.
So that's about it - thoughts? Is this a use case best served in some other way?
A great many thanks in advance for your time and patience, wherever and whoever you are, in helping a struggling dev!
Quick edit: I'm at the point where I have shell access enabled, have myself setup to pull code down from a remote repo and run some basic Python scripts. Beyond that, `INDEX.HTML` is my only code.