Can GitHub host your website? Pages vs a VPS
GitHub stores your code and GitHub Pages serves static files. Neither one runs your app. Here is exactly where that line falls, and what to do at it.
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GitHub stores your code and GitHub Pages serves static files. Neither one runs your app. Here is exactly where that line falls, and what to do at it.
Open an account, create a repository, push your code with three git commands, and see the line where GitHub stops: it stores your project but never runs it.
SSH is an encrypted channel to a remote server. Learn the client and server model, port 22, host key fingerprints, and key versus password login.
A VPS is one physical server sliced by a hypervisor into private machines with their own kernel and root login. What that gets you, and where it stops.
An LLM is weights that need RAM. An assistant adds a chat surface. An agent adds tools and a loop, and it holds credentials, so it needs a box that stays on.
Shared hosting or a VPS? The real split is root access and who fixes the server when it breaks. When shared hosting still wins, and the four signs to move.