I am a normie, trying to understand / get less illiterate with web hosting with the intention of eventually building and hosting my own site, which will have a bunch of ThreeJs content. Sorry if I’m in the wrong place.
Why am I here?:
I am doing Bruno Simon’s “ThreeJs Journey” course, he recommends Vercel due to ease of use, etc…, but I read up on it and find that others have had experiences that make me not want to go that route. Perhaps that is a mistake on my part, but I am going to at least try exploring other options. I have heard good things about GitLab pages; on paper it appears to be a really good free option, so I’m here.
I am doing the 30-day trial, but hope to at least use GitLab Free as a ‘try things out’ platform, will explore paid options when / if the become necessary.
My issues:
I found GitLab documentation titled, “Create deployment for static site”, and I was trying to follow along / figure it out myself, but I feel stuck. This seems like really basic stuff, but I can’t find the answers / a lot of what I find looks like it might not be relevant.
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Do I have to use gitlab’s Web IDE to build my site, or can I upload the build files I created locally / on my machine?
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Is there a way around uploading one file at a time?
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How do I take existing folders / directories and move them to the newly created ‘public’ folder / directory? Do I need to start over from scratch if I didn’t create the folders in the right sequence? This seems like a basic thing to be able to do, but I can’t seem to copy/paste or move directories from one to another. I tried it in the Web IDE, but nothing actually changed in the repo, even after I saved multiple times…
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I don’t understand what a docker image is, why I need one, what the ‘correct’ one is, etc… I look for, and find documentation, but come away more confused as to whether or not what I’m reading is even relevant to what I want to do.