So why not just grab an old main unit, pop in a blank hard drive (format it, blah blah), and use that for your server, while your home computer stays nice and secure? I mean, as long as the system specs can handle it, then why not? Also, if I did something like that, could I then add storage space and memory (again, I know, high end system specs), and then sell server space to others that way, or would the IP be the same for all of them? How could I set it up so it's all separate IPs (or would that be necessary)?
I've been hosting a hobby website on my home server for 2 years and, unbelievably, I get better speed and uptime than my professionally hosted websites. I just added a battery backup in case there is a power out.
Because your website is available (probably) only in your network and also your devices can have almost direct connections as your home server isn't kilometres away
Hosting your own server in today's world is actually more beneficial depending on where you live. For instance where I live I have 5Gbps fiber internet speed and my home server is more powerful and far cheaper than paying $300 a month for a hosting companies crap dedicated server that is only giving me 1 cpu in a 2 cpu per node system. The only thing I could say that a hosting company has better would be unlimited bandwidth but depending on what level of high traffic users you have, it may not be necessary depending on the size of your web pages and how many pages each user goes to before logging out.
IS there a step by step written list to follow to do this? I had a buddy of mine that let me host a site on his server, but when he moved out, the agreement expired and I dont have the server available anymore. I want a step by step how to. step 1, click this, step 2, type this, step 3 press 4 to repeat this message, yada yada yada. no wordpress, no squarespace, none of that crap. all on my own server or raspberry pi even.
I'm thinking of hosting my own site on a separate low-power machine. The huge upside is backups. It's a pain to schedule a backup on a web-hosting. You have to do it manually, or pay extra, and then download it manually still. On a home PC you can just schedule it, and it will backup the whole system, and do incremental backups. And you can use an old 10$ (or even free) chunk-a-junk pc, or even android tablet for that.
1. do awesome looking tutorial and lead your watchers to turn their firewall down. 2. at the end of all that say it is all extremly dumb and manipulate your watchers to buy stuff. 3. profit.
The reason I'm hosting a website from home is because I run a dedicated gaming server for my friends to play together occasionally and my webserver hosts the custom maps to download. The website only needs to be up while we're gaming so I just need to make sure it's secure.
hi! what sort of programs are you using? I want to build a game and website server hoster from my old pc. So every people all around the world can access to it and download files. sry for bad english and thank you very much for your reply in advance.
my wife's business (speech pathology) has 6 static web pages. With details on the services she offers, fee structure, qualifications, contact page. Wix charges nearly $400AU per year. No consideration that she doesn't use anything that they call a "feature". All the other "cheap" web hosting solutions offer $3/month hosting (US$ - I'm in Australia so that is now around $5/month) then in small print "for the first year" after that $20-$25 per month. I've just switched on and upgraded an old server and self hosting will just cost me a bit of time setting it up.
@@mentatsolutions1101 I am curious of how you did it and what precautions you took. To elaborate on my original post, I never did host a website online after reading about how self hosting will all but guarantee my home network being compromised
@@mentatsolutions1101hello! If the web is just static, maybe it is a good option to publish in the GitHub pages, you can't change the URL, but will be free
@ 9:00 what you are saying is that its easier to buy the cooked food becuase there are so many chefs cooking for cheap than you learning how to feed yourself and not be dependent on anybody/"websites", for us to be able to provide the world with OUR CONTENT. I disagree my friend i believe it is all the way worth it for us to learn how to host instead of being hosted.
Is it really that big of a security risk to create your own home server? Especially if it's a small and private server with only a login page. If I use a linux device and enable all the necessary prerequisites for security, it seems more worth it these days than to pay for something like this monthly.
When you purchase hosting, you are buying a SHARE of a larger server, with allocated resources. Often these are capped and throttled, because your app or site is just one of thousands on the same box. Your home webserver is dedicated only to your apps, you get 100% of whatever resources you allocate. When one of my friends mentioned the response times on the hosted were slower than my home server I did some testing to compare, and I found that doing large parses of data was roughly 10 times faster on my home server. The kind of hosting I would need to purchase to keep up with my self-hosted webserver would cost a fortune.
The problem with hosts come after the cheap introductory offer. Then they charge you HUGE amounts per month. Some so-called reputable hosts don't even have that amount on their website. Others hide it in the fine print. Costs can easily got to $20+ a month with no add-ons. If you only have a small site, do port forwarding correctly and have a good firewall it is a lot cheaper and better to self host. Also, if not much traffic and a good upload speed, you may get a faster website than some.
You might want to look into cheap VPS providers like Hetzner or Contabo. They have a static price, Ive released a video about that just a couple of hours ago
I disagree with most of your "bad idea" reasons. I believe you executed the video exceptionally well, and I understand and appreciate your perspective but using Linux instead of Windows is already a great first step in "doing things right".… WAMP 😂😂
The point of knowing how to make a farm is knowing what soil to use fertilizers and water consumption etc. and by doing so it showed me why cloud is good
The reason I wanted to learn this is because my website has ran out of space. And the hosting is getting expensive to keep upgrading the amount of storage I have.
So the moment I change the ServerName and Listen to the IP Adress, WAMP wont turn green anymore. and implementing Order deny,allow Deny from all will say I got no permissions, when I try to connect to localhost
I'm surprised you didn't just teach us how to create a VM and use THAT as your server to host your website 😳 considering everything is going cloud based anyway... but maybe I'm just overthinking 😂
This is a far better and more secure way to do it imo... but I'm guessing he explained it this way because the people asking don't wanna go through the trouble of setting up a VM, even though they really should.
@@sample455 it stands for a virtual machine, it's basically like if you were running an instance of another operating system on the current one your on. A computer in a computer if you will. Computer ception, lol. Imagine you open a program on ur computer, and it's another computer with its on desktop, its own web browsers, etc.
So let's say a company wants a WordPress site to work only in their intranet for employees, no access from outside. This would be the best choice right? Is it enough for the company to provide a VM with Windows installed?
I have a very minor problems with this video. One you give no time for people following along with you to do what your doing. Two, where are the list in the descriptions or comments?
What did you use to edit this? It's really dynamic. Do videos like this take insanely long to make, or just kinda long to make once you're used to the software?
*ONE MORE THING* ports also need to be open from your ISP side too. i was also doing this and wasnt working at all. But after some research i came to know that ports were block by my ISP.
although the video itself is enjoyable and it got me motivated into experimenting again with websites (for various reasons) it skips a few details that might get someone ,totally new to this, to simply get stuck and quit. Also around the part where you edit the vhost file it makes the appache server unable to start which needs a bit of troubleshooting.
Well I highly doubt you're going to host 50tb of content on your personal computer :D A physical server would be much cheaper, but this method is for computers only
Looks like an advert for Hostgator you don't speak of the "nickel and dimes" that are put on you because of the base model they give barely gets you started and that's ALL hosting dream hosting has allot of issues and very limited support as in many of the comments security can be handled and to tinker is king if you build multiple sites you'll save enough in one year to pay for the server..I am
Shittiest hosting websites, plus this price is for 2 years TOPS, after 2 year they charge you fully without asking a fucking question whether they can do it, try getting your refund then. Miserable companies and even more miserable people who promote them...
Try getting bluehost, ull get a server that is shared between 10-1k other domains, and see how your emails get blacklisted at least once every month. You then end up in their support who literally tell you everything is fine until u start shouting and only then they go fix the spamming issues
You did not mention at all that for this to work long term people would need to have a static IP address. Which is something that most ISP around the world do not provide by default and you have to specifically request, sometimes it will even cost you an extra. If you do not have a static IP address and still link your domain name to your IP address, then the website will sooner or later become unavailable as your IP address changed over time. To solve this you'd have to manually change the DNS records every time your IP addresses changes (which is not a predictable or regular event).
Was the purpose of getting a domain name to have an actual name for the website? I'd like to know if it's possible to skip that step as I just want to create a server for an API.
I came across a video that was showing how one would potentially use their cpu running off of Rf to locate other devices on their network. I was wondering would it be possible in the case of towers being out that if one has an open network website up and running for their to be communication between devices publicly via a chat on the webpage or will the site only be accessible if the towers were running mg
Hi, Thank you for a great video. I also wonder if it is good to do this when you have 40 websites. I like to find a good solution and my host is so bad. I find great trust in your answer. Thank you
Hey for large amounts of sites I highly recommend getting a managed Cloud hosting server. One of the best solutions price/performance wise at the momment is ScalaHosting (emit.reviews/go/scalahosting) You can get a server with dedicated resources and host as many sites as you need. If you run out you can always add more. Good luck!
nice video but why would you tell people how to do something, in an unsecure way then call them dumb? you know you can create in and outbound rules to restrict access without having to disable your firewall right. there are other measures of course to further secure the server past that which would have nice to mention instead of calling what would have been an otherwise a good tutorial.... dumb.....PS: you failed to specify the port when adding you ip to the configuration file
Hi, Thank you so much for this great video! I will use it to make local network website. Is it possible to have an audio and video content on local network website???
You can have any thing you want on your website, local just means that only the people on your local network can see it. That's all it means. Assuming that you've published it to your local network, and not just to your computer itself.
@@Defathomize How many players are you planning on getting? Maybe something like a managed VPS would be cheaper & easier to configure properly. You could scale based on your users to decrease/increase cost as you grow. I recommend checking out scalahosting for this, I have a review on my channel. Https://emit.reviews/go/scalahosting-2021
@@Emit.Reviews About 20 would be nice, but yeah I've talked to a hosting service already and they mentioned a scaling plan as well, starting at around €5 per month. Was just wondering if it's a good idea to also use this server as a website host along with the server or if it would compromise a lot of my security.
Nah, it wouldnt compromise security. However, it MIGHT be a good idea to seperate these. In case your server goes down, the website wouldnt be offline. And you could have a message "fixing techical difficulties" ir smth. Not leaving players in the dark. If everythings hosted on 1 server once it goes down, everything stops working
I am a freelance web developer , I hosted a lot dynamic websites . Paying the bill for all that pages is pretty much . So I decided to start my own server by buying some hardwares and build my own . From this video I completed everything with my test computer and the site is now live with my ip address. Is that okay to start my own server ? Anybody have any suggestions?
If you want to handle 30 million page views you will need something like google cloud or buy a dedicated server, you can also maybe try cloud hosting but normal web hosting is only suited for around 400,000 page views at max.
