How To Host Your Own Website For FREE – Home Server Tutorial
I’ll show you how to host your own website for free using your computer as a home server. It’s quite a fun project!
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► WAMP ➜ https://www.wampserver.com/en/
► WordPress ➜ https://wordpress.org/
So you might want to turn your computer into a local testing environment for your WordPress website. Or use your computer as a web hosting server to host your site for free. In this tutorial I will show you the steps you need to take to make this happen.
00:00 – Intro
00:40 – Software Setup
02:15 – WordPress Install
04:20 – Getting Your Site Online
07:45 – Adding a Domain Name
8:30 – Why You Shouldn’t Do This
8:50 – Alternatives
#1 Software Setup
You will need a piece of software called WAMP to how your own website for free. It will allow you to install all of the necessary files and turn your computer into a home server.
Once you have WAMP setup the easiest way to get a website online is WordPress.
#2 WordPress Setup
Just download the WordPress files from their website and store it on the website folders created by WAMP. This will allow you to configure the databases and autoinstall WordPress onto your home server.
#3 Getting Your Website Online
The next step is to get your website online, because currently it only exists on your computer. That means, only you can view it. By adding some firewall rules and rerouting traffic through your IP address you can make so every device that’s connected to your wifi or local network can access the website. It’s a great way to test your creations on multiple devices.
#4 Setting up a domain name
If you want to host your own website you will also need other people to access it that are outside your local network. This can be done by attaching a domain name to your IP address and allowing incoming connections. That way everyone that has the website name can directly access your site that’s hosted using your computer.
#5 Why It’s a Bad Idea To Host Your Own Website
Your website will only be online as long as your computer is. So if you want for it to work 24/7 you’ll need to have your computer on for all that time. It’s also quite an unsafe practice as other people will have access to your IP address and can DDoS your site at any time. Hosting your own website you also get 0 benefits that usually come with paid hosting providers like
control panels
SSL certificates
Domain names
Support
While it’s a fun project and used to be somewhat relevant before. Now, I just recommend you use a cheap web hosting provider that will take care of everything.
– DISCLOSURE –
I am affiliated, but not sponsored by any hosting provider. This means I might make money when you purchase hosting services through the links provided and I might be able to offer discounts when available. All of my opinions on this channel are always mine!
#HowToHostYourOwnWebsite #HomeServerTutotial
by Emit.Reviews
linux web server
Adding the code mentioned at 4:45
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#Virtual Hosts
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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
WARNING: Do NOT open any ports on your network, it is a MASSIVE security risk. Use cloudflare tunnels instead.
That was a fun, and very funny video !
That has a lot of good info…
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?
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.
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
Why make a video to do something you can't support. Maybe… If you plan to do this this is how I would do it and here is what you should look out for.
I want to do it to avoid censorship.
My wamp server dosen't activates just opens alot of cmds
God , man, you are so noisy! 100% you are not from IT field…
wampp
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
i could connect to it on other devices after portforward the first time i started wamp, but when i restarted it as you said to do it didnt work anymore and only worked on localhost
Hosting applications can get expensive. Only hosting a docker based app can cost hundreds of dollars per month
this seems like a big hostinger ad, cloudflare is free everyone just point your domain to your IP through a proxy.
I subscribed! Whyever not? EXCELLENT presentation, think I'll take your advice! Thanks!
…cringe
can mac do this?
My website currently holds 55 terabytes of data, and continues to grow, the cost of hosting is obviously significantly expensive and uploading all that data will take a lot of time. So I would prefer hosting the website on my own server
WordPress install not coming up, doublechecked all the steps