Documentation Update

- Add paragraph on namecheap
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- Add paragraph on netlify web hosting
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Sravan Balaji
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domain for $12 per year.
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<p>
More recently, I found that
<a href="https://www.namecheap.com/" target="_blank"
>namecheap</a
>, as the name implies, is cheaper. I was able to
transfer the domain to their service for about $8
per year.
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on Google Domains. All this does is redirect traffic
from your custom domain to the U of M domain. This
might be ok for you, but I would prefer to have my
website show up at the domain I purchased. Per
website show up at the domain I purchased.
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<p>
Per
<a href="https://vesikar.com/" target="_blank"
>Yash Vesikar</a
>'s recommendation, I looked into
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about setting up Google Domains for GitHub pages
very useful.
</p>
<p>
After watching
<a href="https://christitus.com/" target="_blank"
>Chris Titus</a
>'s
<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0c4d1lbMk"
target="_blank"
>video</a
>
on website hosting, I decided to give
<a href="https://www.netlify.com/" target="_blank"
>netlify</a
>
a chance. You get the same benefit as GitHub pages
with automated deployment of the website upon pushes
to the git repo. A summary of the differences can be
found
<a
href="https://www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify/"
target="_blank"
>here</a
>. For me, having the ability to preview deployments
on development branches and rollback the site if I
ever need to made this the obvious choice.
Especially when considering that netlify also offers
a generous free tier.
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