Chapter . Publish Your Site

In this section, I help you figure out where to publish your site (.Mac, a .Mac group, or someplace else) and give you the necessary steps.

Decide Where to Publish Your Site

A Web site is nothing if the rest of the world can’t see it. To publish your site so others can view it, you must copy its files to a Web server, a computer running Web-serving software that knows how to communicate with Web browsers. Usually, a Web server has an always-on connection to the Internet and—ideally—it is situated in a place where power outages, drive failures, and other problems are unlikely to occur. A service that provides you with space on a Web server, and takes care of all the maintenance and technical details of running a Web server ...

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