Best Free VPS Setup 2022 (Hestia on Oracle Cloud Free Tier) Complete Website + Email Tutorial
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Wow, this is the BEST free setup we’ve found for Oracle Cloud free tier for running a webserver plus mailbox. Super easy to use, fast, unlimited and everything is done through the web panel.
The advantages that make this my recommended Oracle cloud free tier setup are:
-Runs perfectly on ARM, allowing us to access up to 4 CPU and 24GB ram FREE
-Simple and friendly interface
-Easy app install, 1-click WordPress
-NGINX Caching for fast webserver performance
-No limits on number of domains, websites or mailboxes
-Easy mailbox setup, easy to add SMTP relay to provide improved deliverability
-Default security setup is very solid
-Auto updates by default
This all takes only 3 commands to setup!
You can find the this on the blog here to cut and paste:
https://ideaspot.com.au/blog/best-free-vps-setup-2022
The free SMTP relay we use here below:
➡️ http://ideaspot.com.au/brevo
Sendinblue is now called Brevo, the setup method is still basically the same 👍
Mailjet also works well too as an alternative.
0:00 Intro & Features
2:21 Launch VPS
4:37 Point DNS records
5:58 Connect with SSH using Putty
7:05 Install HestiaCP
8:59 Allow ports through Oracle Cloud
10:02 Login to panel
11:21 Add a website
13:29 Quick install apps, WordPress Example
14:41 Mailbox setup
21:47 Statistics Setup
22:40 Other cool features
25:10 Oracle Free Tier FAQ’s
27:55 Conclusions
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These tutorials are fantastic! Any chance of doing one to create a web hosting company with email and customer account access. What would be the best control panel with lots of features at a low price for a small company to host about 25-50 domains? Thank you for everything you do!
A huge thanks for sharing this web hosting video! Ive experimented with Hostwinds and GoDady, however Cloudways with TST20 coupon is the most effective deal.
HELP > WordPress Multi-site ? But first things first… this is an awesome tutorial!! Thank you so much!
I would like to set up several WordPress sites on this VPS, most of them being entirely seperate sites. However, I would like to have at least 2 of them set up as WordPress Multi-site.
Q: Is it possible to set up WordPress Multi-site on Hestia? If so, would it be possible to get a tutorial on how to do that?
This is great but I ditched hestia for aaPanel in the end. I just found it hard work to configure nginx and apache.
excellent tutorial on setup wordpress and mail. I was able to configure one for my domain by this tutorial.
Thanks a lot Alex !
Was going to follow along but it's been 24 hours and I still don't have my login from oracle. The turn around time on new accounts must be awful.
Why don't you use Oracle cloud for DNS management??
Simply loved it, Thanks for in depth tutorial. ❤
How long a free vps works?
great value in one video ✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔
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Outstanding mate thanks
Thank you so much for a such informative and easy to understand tutorial. Can you please make a tutorial about getting more external ip addresses and add to hestiacp.
Very detailed tutorial, thank you so much for this. i'am having one issue. my hestiaCP doesnt have an ssl attached to it. so i went through the steps that were mention about inputting a command through putty, but when i do that it tells me permission denied each time i try. just and FYI im using a virtual windows machine on my Mac Mini M1 since i wasnt able to get putty running on the mac correctly.
has anyone else ran into that SSL issue with their HestiaCP install? any help would be greatly appreciated
Hi, if I lost my public key but I have the access data to Oracle how can I connect with Putty?
Is this still a viable solution in 2023?
Great tutorial, thank you! Setup was easy and everything is working. One question, is there a way "enable" filters in roundcube webmail?
would've been nice to know hestia install would install apache and somehow manage to fuck up my nginx configuration in the process
nice video! how can i use fastcgi cache in the hestia?