Raspberry Pi versus AWS // How to host your website on the RPi4 

Please make an episode 2: How to scale with a raspberry pi :)

I personally use a Raspberry Pi 4 with this exact setup to run my development servers that don't need to scale, and that I don't want to pay for yet. The only difference is that I have a reverse proxy set up so that I can run many websites at once off of it, but the Raspberry Pi 4 is honestly such an underrated little computer. Great for risk-free development.

Those videos are amazing! I am senior SW dev but sometimes I feel like a trainee when watching this. IT is an infinite topic where innovations pops out on daily routine. Thanks for your work

This video broke down about 4 hours of research into 8 minutes and I love it. Could you do one about converting old computers to Ubuntu Desktop/Server and using Apache2? Love this. Thank you!

All fun and games until someone start dossing literally your home connection trying to bring down your stupid to-do list webapp hosted on a Raspberry Pi

Self-hosting is always the most based way to deploy your stuff. Also extra tip: dockerize it right away! (I mean do not install nginx directly on the machine but use docker-compose to launch and orchestrate the nodejs container and the nginx container)

Hosting out of your own local network is pretty nice for home automation, assuming you secure it properly. You can build and host a web interface that manages devices on your LAN. Super fun stuff. :)

One more thing to add is the local IP of the raspberry pi is not static by default, it can get reassigned to another device if your raspberry pi goes offline or the router is restarted. You can mitigate this by assigning a static IP to your raspberry pi on your router based on the raspberry pi's MAC address

Kids :- build Twitter from scratch Men:- build zoom from scratch Legends :-build AWS from scratch 8:14

ddos attackers: it's free real estate

I made this so many times that it was like showing my computer haha. Glad this info is available for everyone, for the old school people we had to read lots an lots of pages separately to get this working as you are. thank you very much

I really enjoyed your Freedom theme running in the 'background'!

Solid design principles in 100 seconds 🤩

This is the kind of creativity we need in the world right now.

Actually I have tried this one with my pi but didn't knew there's a service which can take your dynamic ip mapping. Very informative kudos 👍🏻

I did it! Thank you for this, it'll surely be useful in the future for more complex projects

Host a website on your own network to avoid the big monopolies of the internet! **ISP blocks outgoing port 80 and 443 traffic**

Amen! Finally a good tutorial about this very topic! Had my RP4 sitting on the shelf for months now not being able to get it to work. Thank You!

This was hands down the most entertaining episode you did ! Kudos for all the jokes without taking any political stance, I hope more people will follow you example, because this is way too fun to not be done !

im actually going with this approach for a website I'm building, we have to build out server infrastructure using hardware we buy and are putting in datacenters in Chicago, San Fran and New York locations for now. Very similar to your project.

Very, very cool! Would be great if you could make a whole series about that. I'd even buy it, if it were a course!!

This was hilarious, sad and educational, all at the same time.

Thank you so much for this AMAZING and concise tutorial.

Excellent video man! Great job explaining the fundamentals of how web applications are hosted on the internet!

This was awesome! Exactly what I was looking for, I wanted to start hosting a forum for the faculty of my university. This was so informative, specially since I'm new to nginx. I would be curious to know, how to distribute the load with that onto multiple raspberry pies. Would enjoy a follow up video on that very much!

Cant wait for the next upload 'Scaling up the Raspberry PI bong cloud' it's gonna be a instant hit.

With a straight face - This was great. Thank you. Very informative.

🤣 This was the best gimmick to form a tutorial around. Very bold, very amusing and very informative.

I love how you talk about politics with out 'talking politics'. This is my goal in day to day conversation.

Wish this was done like a month ago. Struggled a lot to get this up and running for some reason haha. Would be great to see a follow-up video on security that can be applied for a rasberry pi when hosting your own website.

Great for a little home server. But for the throughput that a public server has to deal with, it takes a ton more, including a good firewall.

Great alternatives for Dynamic Ips + a domain is to use a service that check & update (if necessary) the IP in the DNS config of the domain. I'm running a docker container to update that in Cloudflare. I think Duck DNS is another alternative as well, there are some Docker images available for that as well.

Your extremely subtle sense of humor is really refreshing.

Historical moment: Swearing on Fireship (even if it was censored) xd

Really this is best video ever seen .... Setting up own cloud in 8 fire mins🔥🔥

You have to maintain the room temperature as well. I used to host jenkins, application on rasp for interview purpose but rasp was damaged 8 months later due to heat issues. Remember it will be on 24×7, so need to maintain the temperature.

This is funny and informative at the same time lol😂

Good kick-off. As you mentioned on the beginning, I’d be weary of the security aspect. Opening ports and leaving nginx config on default with no hardenining on the OS is not the best idea in general. A good part two would be adding HTTPS and a domain name to the mix (with google domains or whatever) and securing things a bit on the web server. Docker/k8s are also a hot topic, if instead of installing nginx directly on the host you add two different pods, one for the webpage static assets, and one for a backend API that serves the count number you’d end up with a setup that’s closer to real-world scenarios. Just my 2c, thanks for the fun content!

Thank for helping us to build website on our own raspberry server, I will definitely need it one day.

I didn't learn anything new but it's nice to see someone go through the process

Fireship just to lyk you became my favorite tech youtuber today

Please expand this to a bigger scale and build an app with it :) Who wants to see that?

Pretty sweet! I've been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now. Thank you!

Awesome! I just loved! The idea is amazing, especially for small busines! Please keep doing videos like these.

Thank you very much, Fireship! As a sequel to this, could we ask for an SSL + certbot setup with ARM docker images? That would be super cool!

I've been thinking to do this, but apart from downtime, do you have a suggestion on how to fortify our deployment if we are going to deploy it on home network?

Excellent video, love the humour and you expain the process really well. Cheers

You just gave me all the steps to make my own Minecraft server on the pi, thank you so much

The thing is that even if they can self host, vendor lock-in might be a major issue. We should really have a decentralized cloud, just like Piper-net :D. Individuals would share their computing power to host the cloud, and the collected fees from clients would be split between automagically.

I highly recommend automating your rpi build with mkaczanowski/packer-builder-arm and Packers ansible-local provisioner, or just flashing the base img and to all your pis and then running Ansible in parallel on all of them. I switch between the two, depending on what I'm doing.

This is the best channel on RU-vid for software devs 🙏

This video is literally my job right now. Kudos.

OMG I always wanted a guide like this :o

For fireships 2021 predictions video I wrote I expected code documentation will need to become even more important/transparent for risk management & as a tool for platform migration. I didn't anticipate it to be from a singular event right when the year starts! I more assumed a series of small tiny wake up calls such as infrastructure brown outs, Industry regulation, or brexit compliance issues, etc would be the type of clarion calls.

Most under rated video ............. I had to learn all this stuff the hard way. Countless hours of exploration.

A friend of mine was running a stack of Raspberry Pi at home (he had a static IP). That included a website, a few LDAP servers and what not. Eventually though, he moved to a couple of cheap Zotac boxes with KVM and virtual machines. So it's doable, but slightly more expensive and more powerful machine will probably be a less extravagant, but a better choice.

"just in case a natural disaster destroys the raspberry pi like a volcano or peaceful protestors" ROFL greetings from Seattle

No one: Jeff: Different sized cords into different sized holes

very much impressed how dense in information but at the same time rich in content fireship is able to present my favourite topics 🚀

Literally done this exact thing with my raspberry pi, even used no-ip, quite easy imo and fun.

Between AWS and making your own service, there is a lot of room for other solutions ! Traditional hosting services also work nicely !

I love this channel even more now :)

I did this with Apache2, but with NGINX seems more friendly. Another tip is use pm2 to run your application if you have some power shortcut it'll rerun the processes automatically. Another point is that you can use the Linux CLI instead the GUI to use less resources. And you can save more money buying an Orange Pi board instead of the Raspberry one.

This is amazing ! Thanks for this Video! Can you put your approach when you are learning new things ! ❤️

I totally agree with you. But my biggest problem is why would I invite 300 people into my home? There’s so many things that could go wrong.

The problem is heating of processor and electricity fluctuations.

This is fun stuff to do to get your feet wet. The Low power is great too. I still use a Mac to go and hustle website but just recently took it down since I realized that the Mac took more power than just having a virtual server on my main computer post to website. I'm not really too big in the cloudflare but it does work

Very cool! This would make a great series, I’d love to see more videos about this

8:16 was definitely the best moment! 😂😂

Would definitely be interested in a part two that goes into the making it scalable.

Please make this for part 2 for when you want to scale thing up with multiple raspberry pi. Would love to see it !

This was something I always wondered how to do. Great video!!!

Thank you for this nice video. I learned a lot from it. Indeed, building your own data center is no easy task. And scaling becomes rapidly an issue. I am not a computer networking expert. But, what do you think of an open-source distributed infrastructure as an alternative to AWS and other cloud services. Users will still get billed, but the revenue will help maintain the infrastructure, and eventually pay full-time developers working on the project, etc. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for reading! P.S. Please, no toxic comments.

Can't wait for the follow up where you create a data center with hundreds of Raspberry Pis

Clicked on the video because I found the title interesting. Thought I will learn something new. Turns out I learned almost all this stuff during my childhood before I even got into web development. Hosted a lot of servers for me and buddies that allowed us to play together. Servers like Ventrillo, TeamSpeak, Minecraft even hosted an MMO server ones. Making a distributed network of Rapsberry Pis would be cool though. I would watch that as well.

Awesome video! Definitely on the same wavelength. Question how would you use raspi for a dev server that could also deploy multiple projects via reverse proxies? There is Nginx reverse proxy manager for raspi I would recommend checking out. Essential a place we're you can build multiple projects like your own dev battle station /cloud repo pi to keep learning and teaching from? Then possibly Extend it with more pi's building a supercluster

I was about to sleep, saw the notification, now sleep no more

I just woke up, how this dude already on topic with today’s events. Lmao

I fricking love the door analogy+picture.

Thank you very much. I found answers to many of my questions in this video.

There are obviously a lot of issues here with scalability, containerization... But my most important recommendation to anyone trying to do this is to make sure your raspberry pi is issued a static local IP address by your router. Most routers will automatically use DHCP to dynamically assign IP addresses to internal devices so your raspberry pi will be prone to being reassigned a new IP address at which point your port forward will need to be updated. Instead, you can assign a static IP to the pi based on its hardware ID / MAC address!

I'm doing pretty much the same thing but I am a python guy so I went with Flask option vs the Express route. I am very Interested in the NGINX expansion. The part about getting a static IP from your ISP was a long drawn out process for me. Nice video. Hopefully part two and or the Nginx expansion comes soon.

even with an old office pc you find you can install linux and set up a webserver like this. good experience and very fun

You are doing awesome work, keep the flow running 👍

The thought of having something *on* the cloud and getting kicked off (especially for a big site) is spooky. AWS definitely has to have some secret sauce. The speed of some AWS data transfers is surprisingly fast.

Perfect video in this days. Feels like there Will be a battle between good devs who like a free and open web and the big tech DDR/ccp devs

Booting my Pi from SSD was the best thing I've done on the RPI. Do it.

What a good video! I'm so glad I'm subscribed to your channel. Love your content:)

What AWS did to parler is *exactly* why I have never liked "the cloud". There is no "cloud", just someone else's computer.

When you said they migrated to serverless i thought they moved to lambda functions for a second hehe

I have own data center. It's very interesting and beautiful because it's working 24/7 if appears error I can configure from scratch that job gives me joy and happiness.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!!! Thanks!!!

“In case your app is destroyed by a volcano or peaceful protesters” SHOTS FIRED 😂😂😂

"Both of which are terrible options, but lets go with the first one... From here we're going to build a NodeJS ap..." 😂

Awesome video! Can someone share the calculation on the comparison of compute cost for AWS vs RPI over 3 years?

*_Mikołaju, jeśli mogę tak na ty :)_* _W końcu zbudowałem swój pierwszy komputer, nie licząc braku monitora, wyszła mi ładna gablotka do podziwiania. Teraz liczę na cień szansy i szczyptę wyrozumiałości co do tego, czy byłem grzeczny w tym roku._ _Jeśli tak było, to monitor, który stanąłby na stanowisku dowodzenia, byłby strzałem w dziesiątkę. Dodatkowo podpowiem, że chłopaki z kanału GiT znaleźli niezłą sztukę, tak nie sugerując ;)_ *_Owocnej pracy i szerokich kominów!_* Twój imiennik, Mikołaj

It's probably a good idea to route through Cloudflare, so that a DDOS attack doesn't put down your entire home network.

Also worth mentioning that a lot of ISPs blocks incoming traffic to port 80 and 443 for home users. You'll need to use a different port to serve your pages.

wow, thanks for making this video. This opens up so much opportunity for me.

Cool! You just saved Humanity! 😃. Do a part 2 that addresses any security holes and how to mitigate. Good summary work! 👍