interships

Set Up With A Website Host

A minimum requirement to implement a Filipino web internship is to have a website host. The college students will all be logging in to your account to work on web site assignments you've made up.

I use Bluehost.com.

Here's a few things I looked for:

  • Bliuehost.Com first and foremost is cheap. It's something like $7 a month.
  • It allows you to have 1 free domain or at least a domain that's included in the price of the hosting.
  • It's supports MySQL and PHP 5 which is key for the open source content management software I'm using for my internships, DRUPAL.
  • You can have 99 MySQL and 99 Postgres databases which means you can have theoretically 198 Drupal sites.

Things to consider tnat I did not in my situation:

  • You may want to have two hosting accounts - one for test and one for production.
  • You can move sites from one to the other by exporting the Drupal file directory and Drupal database.
  • The purpose of this is to lock down websites you don't want interns touching afterward. It's also a good idea to only move in new work to a web site once it's been tested.
  • In my case, I don't have that formal of a requirement to lock things down so I just ask my interns to make a test copy of the site and a production copy of the site on the same host.