Servers, deploying and APIs
Buy a server on Lynk and set it up over SSH, deploy websites and apps, point domains with DNS and HTTPS, and use Lynk's API. Then sell it.
- 20 lessons
- 5 hr 58 min
- Advanced
- Free
- Certificate included
Course introduction video coming soon
What you'll learn
- Your own serverExplain what a server is, and when a business needs its own instead of Lynk's hosting.
- Deploy websites and apps, with your domainMove a Lynk website onto your own server, and move it back.
- Lynk's API, and servers for clientsExplain what an API is, make an API key with only what it needs, and keep it safe.
Your learning path
20 lessons · 3 sections
1Your own server7 lessonsExplain what a server is, and when a business needs its own instead of Lynk's hosting.
You'll be able to
- Explain what a server is, and when a business needs its own instead of Lynk's hosting.
- Buy a server on Lynk, and log in to it with SSH from your laptop.
- Keep it up to date, and log in with a key instead of a password.
- Read its Health, take and restore backups, set up Monitoring, and keep it renewed.
- 11.1 What a server is, and when a business needs oneLearn · 12 min
- 21.2 Buy a server, and its page in LynkLearn · 15 min
- 31.3 Hands-on: log in with SSHTry it · 30 min
- 41.4 Set your server up safelyLearn · 20 min
- 51.5 Hands-on: updates, your own user and a keyTry it · 45 min
- 61.6 Health, backups, monitoring and renewalsLearn · 15 min
- 71.7 Graded quizQuiz · 15 min
2Deploy websites and apps, with your domain7 lessonsMove a Lynk website onto your own server, and move it back.
You'll be able to
- Move a Lynk website onto your own server, and move it back.
- Install a web server and put your own page and a small app on the server.
- Buy a domain, point it at your server with DNS records, and turn on HTTPS.
- 82.1 Deploying: how a website gets onto a serverLearn · 8 min
- 92.2 Move a Lynk website onto your serverLearn · 10 min
- 102.3 Hands-on: a web server and your first pageTry it · 30 min
- 112.4 Put an app on your serverLearn · 20 min
- 122.5 Domains and DNS recordsLearn · 15 min
- 132.6 Hands-on: your domain, pointing at your server, with HTTPSTry it · 45 min
- 142.7 Graded quizQuiz · 10 min
3Lynk's API, and servers for clients6 lessonsExplain what an API is, make an API key with only what it needs, and keep it safe.
You'll be able to
- Explain what an API is, make an API key with only what it needs, and keep it safe.
- Send an SMS from your server with Lynk's API.
- Set servers, domains and keys up for a client so they stay the owner's, and sell this work.