Get the most from your cloud-based website

Making Your Server Your Best Friend

An easy-to-follow, over-the-shoulder workshop designed to empower you and equip you to take ownership of your own cloud-based website.

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Course Details

Course Description

If you are a business owner, freelancer or consultant working with a web-based business, you know the importance of delivering a great user experience through your website. Your server is the workhorse that powers it all. Still, it’s easy to feel like servers are a mystery. Shrouded in tech-y language, the very idea of working with your server can make you feel dread. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

Your server is a tool, and our goal is to make it work for you. Learning to feel comfortable managing the basics of your server opens up a whole new world of independence in administering your website:

Cut costs by learning to understand what you actually need versus what you don’t need;
Save time and avoid stress because you’ll never need to waste 45 minutes – 2 hours on the phone with customer service to troubleshoot problems you can fix yourself in 2-10 minutes.

It’s all about following proven processes and easy recipes that will help you take control of your server and put it to work better meeting your business needs. And most importantly, it’s about feeling confident managing every aspect of your website, so that you know you have control and won’t have to depend on anyone else, even a web developer or customer support, for help.

The end goal is to make you feel confident, empowered, curious and in control of your website! This course addresses all this and more.

We’ll make sure you’re no longer missing out on crucial tools that will empower you in your business and help streamline your business processes.

You'll learn how to...

Quickly set up a free server (a $96/year value) to allow yourself to try new business or website ideas (Lesson 2)
Restart your server yourself should it ever happen to crash (Lesson 7)
Reduce storage costs to less than $1/month by storing PDFs, video files, website backups, and other large files in AWS S3 (Lesson 5)
Dramatically speed up how quickly videos and high-resolution photos can load in your site (Lesson 5)
Set up automatic daily or weekly backups with 1-click restore for your website, so you'll be protected just in case (Lesson 3)
Prepare for higher-than-usual traffic by temporarily scaling up your server, so your website won't slow down or crash during its moment in the spotlight (Lesson 6)
Procure a free, lifetime SSL certificate (an $830 value over 10 years) to enhance the security and SEO of your websites (Lesson 10)

Who Can Benefit from This Course?

Business Owners

Take full control of your website by learning how to take advantage of some of cloud computing’s most powerful, cost-effective features to streamline your business and strengthen your website.

Freelancers

Understand how to use AWS and the power of cloud computing to build better websites for clients.

Consultants

Understand the benefits cloud computing can bring your clients and become conversant on how AWS’ features can transform small-to-medium sized businesses.

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