Chad's Guide to Starting Your Own Website

This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.

Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.

Most of the internet's problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.

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Basic Personal Website Setup

This is the basic "course." Follow these quick tutorials and you'll have a fully functioning basic web page on the domain name of your choice.

⏳ This "basic course" can take as little as an hour or even less.

1. Get a domain name.
2. Get a server.
3. Set up DNS settings to connect your server and domain name.
4. Set up your web server.
5. Get a secure HTTPS connection with Certbot.

Accepting Cryptocurrency Tips

• The Case for Crypto for Normal People
• Accept Bitcoin (BTC) donations
• Accept Monero (XMR) donations for superior privacy
• OpenAlias to make crypto easy
• Basic Attention Token (BAT)

In the Works...

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Editing and Styling Webpages

Now that we have a basic webpage up hosted on our own server, we can look more directly about how to design and style your website to contain the material you want in the way that you want.

1. HTML Bare Basics
2. Text formatting in HTML
3. Links and Images in HTML
4. Doing HTML right.
5. Use CSS to style webpages consistently.

Email server

The only truly private and way to use email is the host your own! This is

• An email server the easy way.
• Or, email the longer way.
• Filtering spam efficiently

Excellent Extras

There are also many one-off articles on other things you can add to your website.

• How to maintain a server.
• Use your SSH keys to prevent hacking.
• Rsync is glorious.
• ufw as a Firewall

Make your own social media

• Federation

• XMPP
• Matrix
• Pleroma (like Twitter)
• PeerTube (like YouTube)

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No ads, trackers or trash on this site. We are funded by doing good and earning gratitude. Express your gratitude in the following ways:

• When settings up a website, use our linked affiliate links, like to Vultr.
• Donate cryptocurrencies:

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