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Well, I have flirted with going deeper from time to time. I learned a reasonable amount of PHP and MySQL at one point, and I know a little Python. But I doubt that I’ll be attempting at any time in the near future to do jobs for anyone other than myself.
Well, I’ve been having a look at what this is. I had never heard of it at all (shows how long I’ve been away from this stuff), and I suppose I need a little more time to understand conceptually how it works. I haven’t tried installing it locally yet but I’ll get around to it hopefully this week some time. I suppose my biggest question is how easy it is to use it in the way that you can just quickly post something (a blog post, say) on a CMS.
I’ve seen IONOS advertising on TV (a very annoying ad, in fact, but I suppose it’s one of those that is more memorable for being annoying!), and never heard of UpCloud. The measure of how clueless I was about all this is that I hadn’t heard of Cloudfare. I got another comment about hostpresto.com, which provides SSL certificates. I suppose that there’s some advantage to a holistic approach (right?) rather than having different things dealt with in different places. Or am I wrong about that, and better to assign each job to the best place?
I’ll admit that I’m slightly intimidated by the idea of setting it all up the way you said with VPS and Cloudfare as proxy (no idea how that works – looking at Wikipedia while writing this!) How much would I be paying Cloudfare for being the proxy, and errrr (I need to try to formulate my question in a non-stupid manner!) … in layman’s terms would this mean that Cloudfare is the first port of call for a visitor to the site, kind of just an online signpost, and that the VPS would be functioning effectively as the storage space? And if I’m going for this method, would the SSL certificates be provided by the VPS or the proxy, or does it not matter? And would it matter if I got the domain name itself from yet another place??? Sorry if the questions are badly formed, as well as being too many, but it’s quite a lot to consider from the outset.
I suppose that that is more or less what hostpresto.com offers. Not sure about the mail part – I guess I can ask.
Do I take it that the VPS + Proxy route involves setting up your own mail server? I guess that could be quite a job, right?
Once again, sorry for any dumb questions. I suppose that I shouldn’t apologise, because I wouldn’t be here if I knew what I was doing, but of course I’m British, so deeply programmed to say “sorry” for everything 
