If one is looking to host a website, there are a few different options that you might have. This can be varied with choice of operating system and hosting software. These are things that you might want to look further into in order to having the best setup for your website.
What Is Linux
Linux is an open source OS that has UNIX elements. The licensing is a copyleft, meaning users and developers must provide source code on request. There are entire communities that provide a distribution (AKA distro), which is a fancy way of saying what a community perceives Linux to be.
Linux was created in light of a lack of a good Unix kernel (or what makes the computer do stuff). This is something that helped it to take off long term. By the time 386BSD was released, Linux had already started gaining traction.
What Is Debian
Debian is one of the main distros of Linux. It was started by Ian Murdock (who was the founder of OpenIndiana illumos project). Debian is one of the oldest distros out there on the market. Debian uses codenames from the Toy Story franchise (for each release, so Trixie refers to Debian 13 for example).
Debian tends to focus on a 5 year release cycle. It has 3 years of development and 2 years of support. This slower pace allows for it to be the perfect platform for servers or other mission critical tasks.
Debian 11 Linux
Debian 11 was a major feature release. It supported persistency in system journal, and kernel level support for exFAT. It’s codename is Bullseye. There was further drops of older software, most notably KDE4.
Debian 11 is still supported at the time of this writing. It runs on Intel/AMD CPUs as well as POWER, MIPS, and ARM. This diversity allows it to be adapted to a variety of different tasks and platforms. Different CPUs prioritize different things and this adaptability is important.
What Is Apache
Apache is a group that develops various different software. This includes hosting to programming to Java jar libraries. Apache even makes a RTOS that is similar to what BlackBerry does.
This diversity of software allows the organization to have experience with a variety of different things and niches. This is something that allows them different approaches to software development. This is something that also means that they are looking into creating.
Apache is perhaps best known as a web server. This web server is dynamic and can support a variety of different modules. These can include things like CGI, PHP, and more. And it also does support reverse proxies as well.
Apache 2 on Debian 11
When installing, Debian 11 needs to be updated via the command: sudo apt update. Then we can install the server by running: sudo apt install apache2. Add the code WWW Secure to the firewall (sudo ufw allow WWW Secure). Using systemd, sudo systemctl enable apache2 and sudo start apache2.
Run sudo apt install curl and then run curl -4 icanhazip.com for the server’s IP.
What Is Linux
Linux is an open source OS that has UNIX elements. The licensing is a copyleft, meaning users and developers must provide source code on request. There are entire communities that provide a distribution (AKA distro), which is a fancy way of saying what a community perceives Linux to be.
Linux was created in light of a lack of a good Unix kernel (or what makes the computer do stuff). This is something that helped it to take off long term. By the time 386BSD was released, Linux had already started gaining traction.
What Is Debian
Debian is one of the main distros of Linux. It was started by Ian Murdock (who was the founder of OpenIndiana illumos project). Debian is one of the oldest distros out there on the market. Debian uses codenames from the Toy Story franchise (for each release, so Trixie refers to Debian 13 for example).
Debian tends to focus on a 5 year release cycle. It has 3 years of development and 2 years of support. This slower pace allows for it to be the perfect platform for servers or other mission critical tasks.
Debian 11 Linux
Debian 11 was a major feature release. It supported persistency in system journal, and kernel level support for exFAT. It’s codename is Bullseye. There was further drops of older software, most notably KDE4.
Debian 11 is still supported at the time of this writing. It runs on Intel/AMD CPUs as well as POWER, MIPS, and ARM. This diversity allows it to be adapted to a variety of different tasks and platforms. Different CPUs prioritize different things and this adaptability is important.
What Is Apache
Apache is a group that develops various different software. This includes hosting to programming to Java jar libraries. Apache even makes a RTOS that is similar to what BlackBerry does.
This diversity of software allows the organization to have experience with a variety of different things and niches. This is something that allows them different approaches to software development. This is something that also means that they are looking into creating.
Apache is perhaps best known as a web server. This web server is dynamic and can support a variety of different modules. These can include things like CGI, PHP, and more. And it also does support reverse proxies as well.
Apache 2 on Debian 11
When installing, Debian 11 needs to be updated via the command: sudo apt update. Then we can install the server by running: sudo apt install apache2. Add the code WWW Secure to the firewall (sudo ufw allow WWW Secure). Using systemd, sudo systemctl enable apache2 and sudo start apache2.
Run sudo apt install curl and then run curl -4 icanhazip.com for the server’s IP.