# Appendices

[#](#appendix-a-hosting-services) Appendix A: Hosting Services
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AWS, GCS, Heroku, Digital Ocean, Linode, RackSpace, & more

### [#](#aws-gcs) AWS & GCS

If you think you will need to be able to scale quickly.

Price can jump quickly.

### [#](#digital-ocean-linode-rackspace) Digital Ocean, Linode & Rackspace

You want your own server space and scaling isn't immediately important.

### [#](#heroku-netlify-more) Heroku, Netlify & more

Heroku is somewhere in-between AWS & Digital Ocean; it requires some specialized know-how, though has a somewhat small learning curve. It is also easy to scale if needs-be.

Netlify is for specialized static sites.

### [#](#aws-s3-buckets-for-static-sites) AWS S3 Buckets for Static Sites

This may be the cheapest option for those building static sites.

### [#](#wordpress-options) WordPress Options

(Managed Hosting Comparison)\[https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/best-wordpress-hosting/\]

[#](#appendix-b-a-quality-beginner-wordpress-set-up) Appendix B: A Quality Beginner WordPress Set-up!
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### [#](#basic-themes) Basic Themes

### [#](#widgets) Widgets

### [#](#plugins) Plugins

[#](#appendix-c-content-creation) Appendix C: Content Creation
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Content creation is what ties everything together.

### [#](#tools-of-the-trade) Tools of the Trade

### [#](#canva) Canva

With the Free account you can still obtain quality custom images and even videos that do _not_ have a watermark!

### [#](#grammerly) Grammerly

[#](#appendix-d-wordpress-entry-level-theme-editing) Appendix D: WordPress Entry-Level Theme Editing
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Learn a little CSS.