[Hidden-tech] Starting my own small Business Website

[Rich@tnr]

you can also use a dynamic DNS to create a public web address that 
points to your home server
It depends on how often your local IP changes - if you are using 
Comcast/Xfinity, I can tell your
that your IP will rarely change -- I've used dyndns.com for years for 
that effect.

Just be careful how you define your local router/firewall to keep 
yourserver separate from the rest of your local machines.

Also, you mixed your business discussion with your tech questions - 
there are local business startup groups just about the business part - 
depending on your goals you might check out VVW - 
https://valleyventurementors.org/

If you decide to share your tech ideas, you might also consider sharing 
your code base using GitHub -- there are a number of businesses that 
grew out of a shared Github code base, as the idea grew

Good Luck - Rich

On 12/20/2021 10:40 AM, Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> If this is strictly for use by friends and family and you expect low 
> usage there may be a low cost alternative and host it yourself but 
> make it publicly available. It's amazing what you can do with a static 
> IP, a Raspberry Pi and a network firewall. This video talks about 
> putting a website on the dark web hosted in your house but it would 
> apply as well if you don't want it to be on the dark web. Food for 
> thought:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllS9tkCkaM
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:29 AM Peter S via Hidden-discuss 
> <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
>     Hello Hidden Techers,
>
>     I want to apologize up front for what is a serious 'newbie'
>     question.. but I was hoping to draw from your collective wisdom,
>     if possible.
>
>     I've built a small website that essentially aggregates all of my
>     home utility data (from the various utility websites) into one
>     dashboard.  It's been a personal project of mine for the past few
>     years, written in Django, that I've essentially developed/hosted
>     on my home Linux server.  Its written to be scalable, so that it
>     works for any US State/City, assuming the web crawlers were
>     written for the utility web sites.  I see this as a hobby venture
>     (that could grow to be more).
>
>     I'd like to go live with it, and make it available to some of my
>     friends/family, if they were interested in using it.
>
>     While I've been buttoning up things from a security perspective,
>     I've also been researching the associated costs of actually
>     running a website.
>
>     Specifically:
>
>      1. Purchasing/Sustaining a domain name via Namecheap
>      2. Web hosting (maybe multiple nodes... one for main Django app,
>         one for Redis Queue workers, one for Splash Javascript
>         rendering support) via Digital Ocean, Heroku, or AWS.
>      3. Email Hosting..
>      4. (Possibly) SSL Certificate purchase
>      5. More?
>
>     I haven't yet decided on which hosting services etc to use
>     (multiple topics for other conversations).  My assumption is that
>     in the short (and most likely long term) this won't turn a profit,
>     and would just be a small money hole.
>
>     I thought it might make sense to at least capture these costs
>     under some sort of 'small business' umbrella.  My naive hope is
>     that maybe it would have positive tax implications.
>
>     I've never started a business of any kind before.
>
>     So.. what do I need to do?  I need to get an EIN from the IRS. 
>     I've heard an LLC may be more than I need.  What would be your
>     suggested approach?
>
>     Thanks in advance for your time and wisdom (and patience for my
>     newbie question),
>
>     ~Peter
>
>
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