Month: November 2024

Anyone can build a web site. Anyone and everyone has access to the tools that are freely available on the net, with which one can start opening doors to what the net has to offer.

But it is a learning curve.  Something that can get expensive if you start by pressing the wrong buttons.

The rules are simple. Keep it simple. Keep it flexible. Make sure you have the room you need to move about in. Don’t allow yourself to get locked in to the extent where you become dependent on developers, designers and marketing consultants.

Not to forget your hosting company.

Learn how to register a domain and open a hosting account. Make sure you can pack up your site and move it to a different server, if you have to. Take responsibility for the investment you are making in what you start.

This is a bit like growing coffee. It takes time and experience.

Knowing what I think I know, this time I am doing it a bit differently.

I am going part-time. Firstly as something to do with the time I have. An interest, a hobby. Something I can do at my own pace without compromising on the bits that I believe are important.

People are complicated

When trying to update an old post on one of the sites and ended up getting locked out of the server. This was apparently due to the IP address being blocked due to violation of ModSecurity rules.

It can be disabled from the  cPanel >> ModSecurity but I am still not sure what was violated nor what it is used for.

Once you start opening the doors to the internet, there is no limit to the opportunities that exist. All it takes is a new idea. But this will get expensive if you have to rely on others to set up, host and promote the sites you think you want to run with. It will get expensive if you do not give yourself the room to make the mistakes you are inevitably going to make.

Before starting out you need to learn to drive. To take control of what you want to do and where you want to go. It doesn’t take long to start registering domains every time another great idea presents itself. But it gets painful if you are incurring hosting fees every time you do. Particularly given that  most of them will never see the light of day.

The reason you have to choose an account that provides for the hosting of multiple domains.