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The Journey To Becoming A Web Host
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-journey-to-becoming-a-web-host-3de489d2c05c?source=rss----3a8144eabf

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Hosting Your Own Web ServerThis article requires that you have knowledge of #php and cURL.All Websites Need Web HostingIf you aren’t sure what web #hosting is — everything on the Internet usually needs a web host. To summarize: the Internet is the Earth. The websites on it are real estate and could be considered houses or commercial buildings, which can be defined with an IP address. The roads on it are the DNS routes. The browser is the car we all drive to visit those places. A web host is where your files are and how everyone finds your real estate on the web. A registrar helps with getting your address, an IP address, that you actually don’t ever really see — which resolves to a name for your website, and usually starts with www.(dot) and ends with (dot)com or another TLD (top level domain) (...)

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DreamHost ordered to hand over data on anti-Trump website: The criminalization of political dissent - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/08/26/pers-a26.html

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In a chilling attack on free speech, a District of Columbia Superior Court judge Thursday ordered the web hosting company DreamHost to make available to the Trump administration vast amounts of data related to a website, disruptj20.org, which organized protests against Trump’s inauguration in January.

Edward Snowden, meet Jeff Bezos
▻http://pressthink.org/2013/08/edward-snowden-meet-jeff-bezos

“In November 2010, WikiLeaks began using Amazon’s Web hosting service to leak thousands of pages of State Department cables. But the company abruptly terminated the contract within 24 hours of receiving a call from a staff member for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.”

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That’s not answering the bell for freedom of information. That’s doing what the surveillance state requires, and relying on a legalism to justify it. This is exactly the kind of behavior Edward Snowden was reacting against when he made his decision to go AWOL and reveal key documents to The Guardian and the Washington Post.