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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?
As mentioned above, you can host a website. Nothing too fancy, Geocities-level stuff.
How do I get started?
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.
- 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 and22
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
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 have to introduce some. We're currently at 3% so no immediate worries.
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.