My wife would like a web site for her business and bought the domain last night. She doesn't really know what she wants to do with it but a basic site with info, pictures and blog posts will suffice at least for now. I've built lots of sites in my life but much more on the backoffice CRUD/WebService front than pretty front end UI types. So my questions are:
1) Where should I host the site? My options include on GoDaddy/Something similar, on AWS free tier, on my own server (Windows Server 2012), on VMs hosted on my own server. I'd prefer not to pay since this web site will be purely informational and not generate a single dollar. My concerns with hosting from home are security, uptime, my wife bitching about the quality of my support, the quality of my support. Concerns with AWS is the 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU on the free tier. Concerns with other hosting sites is $6/month cost for $0 return. Am I being cheap with my wife's business account at my own expense?
2) If I do host on my own or AWS, what design tools exist that I could hand to my decidedly non-technical wife so that I'm not left designing. building and updating here website for the rest of my life? I was thinking I'd just install Wordpress and let her go from there, but that's mostly because I already wrote the Puppet code for something else and it will take me 30 minutes to get going on a couple of Centos VMs.
1) Where should I host the site? My options include on GoDaddy/Something similar, on AWS free tier, on my own server (Windows Server 2012), on VMs hosted on my own server. I'd prefer not to pay since this web site will be purely informational and not generate a single dollar. My concerns with hosting from home are security, uptime, my wife bitching about the quality of my support, the quality of my support. Concerns with AWS is the 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU on the free tier. Concerns with other hosting sites is $6/month cost for $0 return. Am I being cheap with my wife's business account at my own expense?
2) If I do host on my own or AWS, what design tools exist that I could hand to my decidedly non-technical wife so that I'm not left designing. building and updating here website for the rest of my life? I was thinking I'd just install Wordpress and let her go from there, but that's mostly because I already wrote the Puppet code for something else and it will take me 30 minutes to get going on a couple of Centos VMs.