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--- tilde_web [2021/07/02 11:22] – wraidd
+++ tilde_web [2022/06/17 23:11] (current) – [Some caveats] wraidd
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-==== What is it? ====
+===== What is it? =====
 Your own personal web space, which is located at https://moonbeam.town/~username.  You can upload static HTML, images, and suchlike to this space via SFTP or SCP using your control panel username and password.
-==== What can I do with it? ====
+===== What can I do with it? =====
 As mentioned above, you can host a website.  Nothing too fancy, Geocities-level stuff.
-==== How do I get started? ====
+===== How do I get started? =====
-You'll want to get a SFTP client (e.g. Filezilla) in order to access your website.
+You'll want to get a SFTP client (e.g. Filezilla) in order to access your website.  I'll run through a quick setup for Filezilla that should be broadly applicable to other services.
-==== Some caveats ====
+  - Open the Site Manager by going to File > Site Manager, or ''Ctrl-S''
+  - Click ''New site''
+  - Select "SFTP" from the Protocol drop-down
+  - Input ''moonbeam.town'' as the Server and ''22'' as the Port.
+  - Change ''Logon type'' to "Normal" and input your username and password
+    - You can leave it on "Ask for password" if you don't want to save your password
+  - Click ''OK''
-There are no disk quotas but if we go above 50 percent utilization I'll have to introduce some.  We're currently at 3% so no immediate worries.
+You can now log into the server by selecting it from the server drop-down (leftmost button on the toolbar).  The first time you log in you'll have to click through the server certificate dialog; it should be safe to just approve, or you can verify the key with me.
+===== What next? =====
+Upload your website to your ''public_html'' directory.
+===== Some caveats =====
+There are no disk quotas but if we go above 50 percent utilization I'll eventually have to introduce some.
 On the other hand, the CPU and RAM usage of the server are about at capacity, so please keep your websites basic -- text, images, CSS.