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Smallsite Design

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5. When can I get it?

Smallsite Design is expected to be available to buy by in 2024, after the translations for the user interface are complete. It is being used for real sites now, such as this one, though.

Once available for sale, at US$10 plus applicable taxes and seller fees for a perpetual license, efforts will be made to get the message out there. Smallsite Design will be submitted for reviews so that you will get some independent opinions, plus commenters (that actually bought it) usually indicate quite quickly whether a product doesn't measure up.

Only your website's domain name will be tied to the Smallsite Design license number. No other details are required. It will be sold through FastSpring initially, who will handle all the complex data and taxation management required where international monetary transactions are involved. Smallsite Design checks for updates, but only you will choose whether to install an update. It is meant to be a finished solution, not a work-in-progress, so updates are intended to be minimal.

Documentation for Smallsite Design, at least in English, is complete. Feel free to peruse it now and would appreciate any feedback that can be provided by its Contact page.

Prerequisites

Some things have to be in place for Smallsite Design to be installed.

The facilities that need to be in place before Smallsite Design can be installed are:

  1. a.Domain name purchased.
  2. b.Website hosting purchased – must be cPanel based.
  3. c.No reply email on the domain, for sending notifications.
  4. d.Forwarder for the noreply account to ignore incoming emails.
  5. e.Email address for receiving notifications.

See the Overall setup procedure for the full process.

Domain names and website hosting are rented with payments every one or two years, so are ongoing expenses for the life of the website. For the most flexibility, have one domain name to which the hosting is attached, and another to be used for your site as an add-on. While the one tied to the hosting can be changed by getting the provider's support team to do it, any email addresses for it will be lost. Add-ons can be added and deleted as required, or even relocated to another hoster without having to transfer the whole account and all its sites. Ones no longer used for a site will retain their email addresses until ready to let go of them, at which point the domain name can be allowed to lapse.

The domain name is the unique address on the internet for your site. There are many domain name registrars to buy domain names from, so shop around for the best prices for your preferred domain. Preferably, do not buy your domain name from the same business that you are getting web hosting from, so that you are free to change to another hoster without undue complications. A domain name registrar can be good at that, but not so good at hosting and vice-versa.

Website hosting is providing the physical infrastructure upon which your website runs. A site could be run from a home server, but it would have to be reliable and its internet connection would have to provide enough upstream bandwidth for outgoing data to handle the likely demand. Paying someone else to have all the technical expertise to run and maintain a datacentre with high availability is usually a much more economical and reliable use of a site owner's time.

For email security, emails are better sent from an address on the domain that the email server runs from, even if you use another From or Reply to address. Create a Forwarder for this address to immediately delete any replies to it to prevent unwanted spam clogging up its inbox.

You will need an address to which notifications from Smallsite Design are sent. This does not need to be using the domain you've set up Smallsite Design on, but since you will be able to create email accounts on the web hoster using your domain name, that gives you much more privacy than using say a Gmail account where Google reads all your emails. Smallsite Design supplies a web-based email form for the public so your email address is kept private.

Smallsite Design is designed to be easily transferred to another hoster, so you should be free to do that without any restrictions or charges imposed by your initial hoster. You should also be free to change to another registrar for your domain name.

Once having purchased and setup Smallsite Design hosting, immediately change the passwords for Smallsite design, and those for the domain registrar, hosting account, and any email addresses if someone else helped you set them up. Make sure these are long and if you have a safe, secure a written or USB copy of them in there. Do not give them out to anyone else, unless you really trust them to look after your site if you can't.

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