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Show Notes * Take a drink every time Wes says exactly

01:10

• CSS Grid course is out!

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

• Service Based Hosting
• Heroku
• Zeit's Now
• Galaxy

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

• You should listen to the Our Stacks Explained episode.
• Zeit's Now Alias
• mLab MongoDB Hosting
• Compose MongoDB Hosting

29:00

• Raw Server Space
• Linode
• Digital Ocean
• Rackspace
• Digital Ocean Droplets
• Digital Ocean's docs are 👌👌👌👌

32:00

• What is Nginx?!
• Let's Encrypt
• Mozilla's SSL config generator
• Caddy Server

38:20

• Docker

40:00

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

SICK PICKS * Wes: Magnetic Magsafe-life USB cable for micro USB, USB-c and Lightning * Wes: Magsafe-like USB that can handle a 87w Macbook Pro * Wow: MONGOOSE VS SNAKE VIDEO * Scott: Bulk Supplements

Shameless Plugs * Scott: Levelup Tutorials Pro * Wes: CSS Grid Course

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