Introduction
A guide on art site infrastructure, finances, and other important matters.
Basic Overview
An overview of essential things you need to understand before starting.
The purpose of this guide
There is one main reason I have written this guide: Understanding the difficulty of website deve...
Tech stack and managerial considerations (non-developers)
If you're a developer, then choosing a tech stack to use is probably going to come down to what y...
Infrastructure Overview
Before thinking about code of any sort, creating a website bigger than "Hello World!" requires a ...
Financial Costs Overview
Ultimately, an art website faces mostly similar costs to other websites (and extra bandwidth cost...
Choosing your Infrastructure and Software Providers
Explaining the factors you should consider when choosing providers to use.
Choosing a 'primary' infrastructure provider
For the most part, big web infrastructure providers are fairly few in number (as the cost and dif...
Choosing 'secondary' infrastructure providers
While this isn't necessarily needed (you might have every tech solution you need from your primar...
Choosing a CDN provider
There are a lot more CDN providers than there are cloud service providers (though most of the clo...
Choosing providers for collaboration tools (email, support, etc)
Workspace Provider For sending non-automated emails, you have a few options. The "traditional" p...