So for the past month I have been busy moving my web hosting to a different server. I have chosen Digital Ocean, an SSD Cloud Hosting service and, so far, I’m like what I’m seeing from them.

However, hosting my silverglass.net site with them means that I have to do all the back-end stuff myself, as it is not a shared host. I create my own server, using what they call a droplet, and I have to install the server software I want to use and everything else to run the site - meaning installing things such as Apache and PHP.

Usually that mean using the Terminal and command lines, something I honestly hadn’t done since college and was learning C++. (And yeah, I haven’t used C++ since college either, and have pretty much forgotten all I knew about it).

I’m glad a switched back to a Mac, since that meant I could use the Terminal that already came with it, and didn’t have to install something like PuTTY or whatever, if I was still on Windows. (Though I went and downloaded the iTerm app anyway, since I could customize it more than the regular Terminal.)

This is just a base post test. It will probably be deleted once I figure out how to format and post correctly using this new method.

This is the first time I have ever used Ruby, and the first time I have ever used the terminal shell to install something since college. So far, from what I’ve seen, the installation has worked.