Deployment: Making Your Site Public

show off what you’ve made

In this session, you’ll learn how to put whatever you’ve made at Web Dev Weekend live on the web. Didn’t manage to make it to any of the other sessions, but still interested in learning how to make a site public? Don’t worry: we’ll give you something to deploy.

How to Attend

Check out the lab sessions here. If you want to use starter code to follow along the lab, check out this code.

DNS Resources

• A very thorough and readable guide from Digital Ocean
• A short, comic by DNSimple explaining name resolution
• DNSimple blog post explaining the difference between an A and CNAME
• How to set up records on NameCheap
• Get a free domain from NameCheap and a whole lot more from the GitHub Education Pack

Heroku

• The Heroku “Getting Started” page, with examples for every major web platform

DigitalOcean

• So. Many. Tutorials.
• A wonderful blog on how to lock down your shiny new DigitalOcean server