With shared hosts, generally when you create a site, you get a temporary url which you can use for testing purposes even if the DNS settings on your domain name haven’t yet been pointed to your shared host… with a VPS, you’re on your own. You don’t get a temporary url so you’re forced in to coming up with your own solution. I have a VPS running Ubuntu with Digital Ocean, so i’ll share how i get around the temporary url problem…
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my first server on irish soil
I’ve just bought a shared hosting account with Blacknight which means it’s the first time i’ll have ever hosted any of my sites in ireland photo credit: jonathanb1989 Although (on paper), hosts in the US give better bang for the buck, the likes of Blacknight have made great progress over the past few years. Prices … Read moremy first server on irish soil