A good web-hosting company will work hard to keep those servers
running and your site available to web surfers around the globe.
Another option, particularly if you have a high-speed, always-on connection, would be to
host your own site. openSUSE includes the Apache web server, so updating your site is a
trifling matter. This would be a reason to get a static IP address from your ISP, because
your site??™s availability would be hit-and-miss if the world??™s DNS servers had to re-locate
your site every time you rebooted and got a new DHCP address. For our example, we will
self-host the site. See Chapters 26, ???Managing Web and FTP Servers,??? and 27, ???Managing
Domain Names,??? for more information on Apache and domain names.
The next thing to consider is what type of information you want to have on your site and
how the pages will be organized. A mind-mapping tool like View Your Mind or a flowcharting
tool like Dia or Kivio may help you think this out, but quite often, it??™s time for
the old pencil and paper to work its magic.
Our site will have a home page that mostly links to subpages for NCAA Division 1 college
baseball, minor league teams in Wisconsin, and the state??™s only Major League franchise, the
Milwaukee Brewers.
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