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:
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The free SMTP relay we use here below:
➡️ 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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This was one of the cleanest, clearest explained video tutorials, i've seen for decades and i do not say that often. High praise for this tutorial!
You are such a brilliant guy! Thanks a lot my man! It works like a charm! The only thing i made different was the DNS, instead of using the registar (mine does not support advanced dns to add zones), i added DNS from oracle. 100%
This is really f good tutorial I've come across so far. I'm having trouble setting that ingress in OCI, now I can create my almost free website fr. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, I have followed both of the videos you put out hestia, oracle, cloudflare and this one to finish up the email. I will say that it works great and if anyone is watching and wondering I would say just do it!
Your voice is so soothing and I have no idea why! Great vid mate!
Wow! Your tutorials have really helped me learn this stuff. Subscribed. Thanks!!
Absolutely wonderful, I can't thank you enough for how much this video has helped me today! Superb, thank you!!!
wow!
How brilliant it is!
You are a great person to share this priceless tutorial with us. Thank you so much.
You will never imagine how much you help me.
Great video, Alex! This really is the smoothest install on the Oracle free tier; so much so that there were not any Ampere resources available when I went to set this up. I already had an AMD Ubuntu / CyberPanel set up. So, I went ahead and set up Hestia on an AMD too...it will probably choke if I do anything beyond a couple of WordPress sites and some email accounts. Thank goodness for swap. I wouldn't put a NextCloud instance on anything less than 4GB memory. Anyway, the SMTP relay setup is pure GOLD. I went with Send in Blue for the relay as well. Your instructions are spot on and made this whole install a breeze.
Nice one - happy to see people get it working 👍👍
Hey Micheal, Does a website that gets 1 million views per day with the always free tier run free of charge for more than a year?
@@emastone I don't see where there's a traffic limit on the AMDs. If you have a website getting that much traffic, I'd expect that it would be best to have it on a paid Tier. Plan on paying for something that will allow for heavier traffic. These free Tiers really aren't offered as "Production" solutions; more for development projects, learning builds and small personal / hobby endeavors. So expect to pay for anything requiring a larger scale of resources.
@@madtech2010 Thank you very much, you are totally right I just wondered its "free" type limitation :)
Nice Work man, you saved me from hours of searching and trying other solutions. Keep up the good work we really appreciate your skills.
Thanks a lot Alex, i was waiting for this tutorial since long
thanks!
Simply loved it, Thanks for in depth tutorial. ❤
Thank you so much for your tutorial, I able to setup the mailserver.
excellent tutorial on setup wordpress and mail. I was able to configure one for my domain by this tutorial.
Another great tutorial Alex, really educational! Thank you
Cheers Maurice 👍
I usually don't comment on videos here but this one deserves a comment. The quality of the content is top notch! Great explications and great subjects covered. Good luck man!
Thanks, appreciate the support 🙏
I'm subscribed too
Thanks very much for this incredible tutorial, Alex! Very good explanations, and easy to replicate, keep up the good work.
Excellent Video Alex. Thanks for the info
I had successfully setup with aapanel. I will now move on to hestia :) thanks alex
Thanks for making all these videos, very good explanations, and easy to replicate, keep up the good work.
absoluteley love this everybody needs to know.. thankyou so very much 🐱🏍👍❤
Thanks for the tutorial. Great work. A Hestia & Nextcloud tutorial would be great!!!
thanks, I've been using nextcloud for a while now, its been on my list of tutorials to make 😅
Yes, I am waiting for nexcloud in hestia video. Thanks in advance
Thanks very much for this incredible tutorial, Alex! Very clear and no wasted time! It is difficult to believe that Oracle offers a completely free tier with this capability, but I'm definitely going to try it to finally dip my toes into cloud computing.
Your demo of setting up a Wordpress site was perfect, but do you know if it is possible to set up a simple PHP/SQL (made from scratch) website with Hestia? I didn't see any simple configurations widgets for PHP version etc (I'm using 7.4) and how to connect them to MySQL/Maria DB's. I'm probably over thinking this but welcome your thoughts on limitations (number of Dabases, number of Domains) vs aapanel. Thanks.
Great stuff...thanks Alex!
I got it thank you. Just had to watch a few more minutes in.
Thanks a lot Alex !
Outstanding mate thanks
23:40 hestia is great. it just works. you can also activate autologin to phpmyadmin: go to admin, settings, configure, security: enable API access, enter server ip below. then enable Single Sign On in Configgure/Databases. You'll see a new icon next to each database.
Thanks alot for these valuable tuts Mate! Cheers
thanks! I like making these kind of tuts a lot :D
@@IdeaSpot Is that really your telegram account?
great video, thanks Alex
Glad you liked it!
Thank you. This is probably the best tutorial I've EVER seen online. This is pure value. I am going to share the crap out of this.
Thanks :)
Wow, thanks! 😮
Be prepared that if you mess up, there is no way to uninstall or remove it. You have to create a new instance.
thanks, very smooth tutorial, i follow all , amazing, now i have hestia server for free. :)
What a great video thank you!
Keep going alex ❤
thanks for the support!
It has taken me good three hours to work side by side your video but I am very veryglad that you have provided this . Thanks a lot. If you find some time, do a video on Wordpress website speed optimization. I would wait for it and so would so many other bloggers who are starting up. Cheers sohail
Oracle terminates your account without any notice or reason even when u dont have any pending bills. please keep this in mind
Thank you for sharing your knowledge very well done cheers
Hey Alex, thank you so much for this tutorial is was extremely helpful, thank you so much. Just one question what is the maximum storage for a single mailbox ? and how many mail account i can create ?
Holy shit I have never seen so much immediately useful information in one video.
Thanks Alex, very useful
Thanks 👍
yep,nextcloud tutorial is going to be fabulous for the sequel 😍
Coming soon!
This is one of the best 👍👍👍
Awesome video
For those that plan to use New Relic One for monitoring server resource usage, go with a non ARM based processor. New Relic doesn't support ARM based CPUs.
great video. clear and simple explanations.
why didn't you choose to use hestia's dns capabilities ?
One of my favourite youtube channels
Very nice and good tutorial, thanks. How many domains can you add to the free oracle version or How many websites can you host?
This is my favorite channel Alex. Great tutorial. Your best video definitively.
Knowing that Oracle let you create 2 free instances for each account, I have a question:
Is it possible to create 2 servers for one domain: one only for hosting the website and the other only hosting its emails?
thank you sir :) yes, and also that sounds like a very smart plan 👍
Amazing ❤️
thanks Sagar 🙏🙏
thanks alot my freind
Thanks a lot :)
Great tutorial, thank you! Setup was easy and everything is working. One question, is there a way "enable" filters in roundcube webmail?
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!
very good thanks
wow, amazing!
Thank you! Cheers!
Huge thanks
thank you sir
great value in one video ✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔
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.
Wow really great 👍 just want to know it's free for Life?? Means can run 2-3 website website?? Cyber panel can support?
Thank you bro.
You're welcome!
Hey Alex... I love your tuts bro. I have a hypothetical for you. I "think" I know the answer, but I'd love to get confirmation. When running a FREE Tier Oracle instance and a Wordpress site, when you embed video or audio files that are actually hosted elsewhere (TH-cam, etc.), the bandwidth required to play those files does not count toward the Oracle limit? Correct?
Great tutorial, thanks Alex. I've installed an aapanel follow another of yours videos, but it has no email. It is possible to migrate all from aapanel to hestia?
Hi! thanks a lot for the tutorial. Instead of the mail and webmail, can I simply use Zoho and delete those DNS records?
Hello and greetings!!
First, I want to thank all the time and effort you dedicate to transferring your knowledge for free.
Second, I did the whole process of installing the server and Hestia without any problem, but I couldn't move forward because I don't have access to the Hestia panel, because whether I want to connect by ip or by hostname I receive this error " redirected you too many times. Try clearing your cookies. ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS".
Note: the domain I'm using was using both CloudFlare's DNS and their CDN. I'm still using DNS but I've disconnected it from the CDN
Set the ssl to full strict in cloudflare (it’s probably on flexible) and try to install the host ssl again with the command @12:57
One thing I can say is the 4 core 24gb Ampere set up is faster than the AWS PLESK lightsail 8gb 2 cpu tier and $40 a month cheaper too. Load balancing this instance with cloudflare caching static pages and use of AWS S3 or other buckets for media objects, css and js, with cloudfront or another CDN ( and perhaps offloading a WP database to RDS ) I am thinking this is cheaper than a pure AWS lightsail based WP site and more performant
Hi Alex,
It was a great share! I learned a lot from this video. Some friends of mine have been using this setup, and they also said that it was the best VPS setup they have ever used. After several recommendations, I decided to try it out, and your video will definitely be a great help in the process. Thanks a lot for sharing this video, I will be able to do it myself, and I gained several insights that will be very helpful as well.
Cool, that’s great feedback 👍 yeah I wish I found hestia sooner 😅
@@IdeaSpot And now i have another problem. Wordpress sends mails after i installed the sendinblue plugin. But from roundcube no outgoing mails.., i can receive mails but all the sent emails from roundcube dont arrive, i checked spam also
Good job
Thanks
Great video are you able to produce a video for hestia on global smtp relay and what we would use that for? and setting up a dns cluster, I want the ability to update dns records on the server and have fail over protections. as an example using something like linode, vultr, do we simply create a clone server, and then update the records or is it a new build which can be on a small plan that simply replicates dns records only? I want to have this setup right the first time, but only a few of my domains need email the rest are just blogs, so i was wondering if those few should be separated out onto their own vps, or is there a way to just pull out the hestia emails onto their own server, but have the other server running the website.
Could you also make a tutorial with Vultr? Maybe also what you need to set everything for nginx or what are good for nginx plugins?
Thanks for this video. I have some questions. I'm currently set up on Namecheap using WP with Elementor and Mailchimp. How would I transfer websites already set up? And I'm on the Stellar Plus package. Are there any services not readily apparent that Namecheap offers that if I switched I wouldn't be able to have anymore? Like I already set up my own SSL certs through Cloudflare. But also, wouldn't I be losing CPanel and how do I learn how to change from that environment to this one? How would I know how the difference in storage and server speeds? Like, I heard companies like SiteGround are better if you have a lot of websites. I have 7, but not all running. So if I wanted to set up that many, would that end up costing more than just staying at Namecheap? I know size, bandwidth and storage all matter. These are not very big sites though. Sometimes I have issues with stuff still and everyone says it's because Namecheap servers aren't that great. So I hope you understand what I'm asking. I'm a newb. :)
Hello, gratitude for sharing so much knowledge. I need a panel like that, could you let me know if it's still available as in the video
Oracle - OCI can ban you without any proper reason. For testing and learning it's OK but for production you have to be out of your mind to use OCI.
Any paid service can ban you too if your breaking their terms of service too… no difference really
You should always backup your data to another provider
Thanks Alex. This is a great work. Keep going. I am having "root certificate is not valid..." error from hestia control panel ssl. is there anyone having the same problem? How can we solve this?
@IdeaSpot Hi Alex, I would like to thank you for this great piece... and I have a question! .. the email now after I set up everything is receiving only and not sending at all, what I should be mistaking on???
Absolutely great video, I have installed my Wordpress website no issues, but when it comes to installing a second Wordpress with a second domain name, i just couldn't get it to work, could you do a follow up video on how to install a 2nd or 3rd Wordpress install
First: Thank you, my friend, for this beautiful explanation. Second: I linked my site after completing your explanation with Cloudflare, and I changed the nameservers, and then I can’t access aapanel. Should I add my own aapanel A record? one more time
Is the Wordpress you installed uses Apache or Nginx? Excellent video. Thanks for making.
Apache with nginx caching , you can also do pure ngnix too if you like - check the docs
@@IdeaSpot Thank you!
Thank you Alex for this great tutorial Hestia is a wonderful lightweight panel. But with the standard configuration, my test website has slow speed between worldwide 500-900ms, I thought nginx is faster ? Maybe you should make a video to show us the best configuration settings for speed in apache-nginx and database fpm.
I think a little bit tweaking is needed in the standard configuration to give a website more speed?
Have happy weekend!
It's only "free" testing ground ? On the other side cheapest aruba VPS with 1GB RAM + nginx + beta old first php 7, mysql5.5 +(hide IP from VPS= Cloudflare + free Zoho for mail) = Total Blocking Time 130 ms Piwigo / 140 ms Wordpress .
thanks for the tutorial i have a question how can i add subdomains to this ???
Brilliant tutorial! Thanks a lot! I'd recommend to create a boot-volume backup right after the basic install of an instance, so one can restore in case of messing up the instance when doing any further installations. I had to terminate an instance and subsequently I was no longer able to receive the full free tier of 4 OCPU with 24 GB Ram (which I had on the first but messed up instance). I also wonder what is going to happen if I size the boot volume initially at 200GB of disk space: will a boot volume backup then exceed the overall total amount if diskspace? So would this lead to automatic deletion after the free testing period?
Is there a ugide how to restore?
Great video! Just a quick question. Is there a limit on the traffic you can have on your site? Like for example if you are gonna get a DDoS attack, does it mean you are gonna pay the amount of extra resources you are using? Or the server just stops when the limit is reached? Thanks for the info.
=0 That's a good question, I would also like to know that
Alex, would be amazing a video comparing Vultr + Hestia against Vultr + Plesk. PROS & CONS. Of course for more than 3 domains.
choose plesk if possible, its a more mature commercial product - vultr gives a free version so its an easy choice
@@IdeaSpot Thank you. It's free until 3 domains and I'm managing 30. I've choose it + Imunify360. I think it's a must. Cheers. And thank you for the reply. Keep going with the videos!!
Best brilliant, secure and AWESOME GAME CHANGER
hello! thank you for this amazing tutorial, i have one question , can install hestiacp without FQDN?
Fantastic vid Alex!
I'm stuck on the control panel login, somehow it won't recognize it.
Somewhere during the installation, it gave a User Exists error.
So far I've been trying to login and even the password recovery
Is not working. IDK what to do at this point and
there's no answers on the Hestia GitHub page, and no way to
start over or reset. Been trying to delete the admin and reinstate one.
Thoughts?
Thanks for this great how-to! How does this compare to webinoly in terms of Wordpress speed? I think webinoly uses NGNIX only and Hestia uses Apache with NGNIX as the a proxy front end, right?
Pretty much equal performance when used on a single server like this - good question👍
Can you please show us how we can use sftp connection with filezilla?
Also you can show some extra features like using the full 200gb allowed on the boot disk instead of the default 50gb (thankfully i figured out how to do this, you edit the bootvolume of the instance to 200gb and reboot the server).
Great video thank you, I have encountered an error and hope you are able to help, I installed everything and my website worked fine until oracle changed my ip address and I can't access my website nor Hestia cp. is there any solution to that.
How is the speed? And anything we can improve the speed test on the free tier?
Kindly provide a full video for installing/setup to Redis & memcached for hestiaCP with integration at hestiacp monitoring dashboard too. Thanks in Advance
Hi Alex, thanks for all your great videos, this one is particularly informative. I found this configuration much smoother than the aaPanel configuration.
Did you have any issues with inbound email to the mail server? Outbound, and using Sendinblue worked perfectly, but I have been unable to get inboud mail to the server. Maybe others have had a similar experience, would be good to here if they did and how they solved it. Am using Cludflare, but purely in DNS only mode.
Make sure the mx record is correct and you have port 25 on the oracle ingress rules, should be ok - let me know how it goes
@@IdeaSpot Hi Alex, thanks for coming back to me. I did eventually get it working, but then I had an issue with the website. Swings and roundabouts comes to mind! I am going to try again with a domain on Namecheap to try out their DNS offering, instead od using Cloudflare. I am currently getting a 429 error on Let's Encrypt as I have been running so many variations of the install on different Oracle instances/shapes. :) On an additional note, in this tutorial you do not run an update to Ubuntu before you go ahead and install Hestia. Is that important for this tutorial or would you by default usually always run the update and upgrade on first run of the Instance?
@@markwood4782 great question - i didn't run updates because hestia install script includes it github.com/hestiacp/hestiacp/blob/main/install/hst-install-ubuntu.sh see from line 711 for cloudflare, try using cloudflare certificate manually rather than lets encrypt
@@IdeaSpot Hi Alex, all is working well now. I spotted in the video that you had setup an alias in the domain name when adding it to hestia. I wondered if that made a difference. I also did as you do and did not run apt update && apt upgrade, straight install of hestia on base Ubuntu 20.04. Mail working beautifully, WP up and cleaned ready for developing a new site. Fancy doing a video on using multiple domians?
@@IdeaSpot How about on GCP free tier? I thought they had port 25 blocked? i still can't get inbound mail working.
Great tutorial! I received an error when I tried to run the install-hestia cmd. I used the default interactive install and it worked just fine.
What is the default interactive install you used, can you share please?
Thanks for your video. I would like to know how you could map a custom domain to a subdomain in Wordpress Multisite.
Out of capacity means you need ot change your domain!!! That is at the top of the page. Just change to domain 2 or 3. (You got 3 different domains from same region to choose)
i tried change it but none works for my sanjose location... thanks for the help....
@@iamblanktape Under availability domains, you got AD 1, AD 2, and AD 3. I used AD 1 for the VPN, and when I wanted to create another VM instance, I received an "Out of capacity" error. Choosing AD 2 fixed the issue. However, that doesn't mean you can exceed the hardware limits!
ah this is interesting. aaPanel was the first panel I ever installed and I liked it because the file manager is so responsive and smooth, but might move to thid
aapanel was pretty good, and solved the ARM cpu issue very early, but it dosent seem to have email on ARM and I found it a little buggy sometimes trying to install addons... hestia nailed everything I wanted in just a few minutes ✔✔✔
@@IdeaSpot i wouldn't shoot to fast. I did a lot of Hestia testing in the last week's and found issues. Did you try importing a Database in phpmyadmin? You will get a gateway timeout with a normal size real life Database (6mb packed, 120 installed) as well as timeouts when using a real life Wordpress sites with 15 plugins running. Couldn't find a way to fix this issue.
@@IdeaSpot hmmmm i was able to use something in github student benefits which was a free .tech domain with 2 mailboxes, used SMTP, opened ports and works like a charm. on second thoughts i think ill stick with aapanel because of their responsiveness, anti XSS (which is pretty neat), also the free auto-renewing SSL certificates and their security features such as one that makes the panel almost impossible to find whilst crawling or doing a directory search.
i will still try hestia eventually because it looks interesting.
thanks
Hi, thank you I do all the step and my website is online ha-ha thanks to you, I have a question, please, so I want to test some site on a subdomaine or install own cloud on a subdomaine, is this possible or I have to buy a domain name on every installation please?
Great tutorial,already have tried this, be good to be able to attach the free 200gb storage rather than using the 50gb boot size.
did it work ok?
i would like to see a tutorial how to set up some kind of online community, like some nice looking modern forum board, not just wordpress every time, on arm ampere architecture
Thanks for the idea!
GREAT
👍
This is awesome. Can I host python and django on this setup like I do on cpanel?