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)?
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 $300 a month for a hosting companies crap dedicated server that is only giving me 1 cpu in a 2 cpu per node system. The only thing I could say that a hosting company has better would be unlimited bandwidth but depending on what level of high traffic users you have, it may not be necessary depending on the size of your web pages and how many pages each user goes to before logging out.
IS there a step by step written list to follow to do this? I had a buddy of mine that let me host a site on his server, but when he moved out, the agreement expired and I dont have the server available anymore. I want a step by step how to. step 1, click this, step 2, type this, step 3 press 4 to repeat this message, yada yada yada. no wordpress, no squarespace, none of that crap. all on my own server or raspberry pi even.
I've been hosting a hobby website on my home server for 2 years and, unbelievably, I get better speed and uptime than my professionally hosted websites. I just added a battery backup in case there is a power out.
Because your website is available (probably) only in your network and also your devices can have almost direct connections as your home server isn't kilometres away
I'm thinking of hosting my own site on a separate low-power machine. The huge upside is backups. It's a pain to schedule a backup on a web-hosting. You have to do it manually, or pay extra, and then download it manually still. On a home PC you can just schedule it, and it will backup the whole system, and do incremental backups. And you can use an old 10$ (or even free) chunk-a-junk pc, or even android tablet for that.
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
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
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.
@ 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.
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.
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 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
Well, the reason you would host it at home is for experience. Lots of people like to know the behind the scenes, so I think being able to do it is great experience.
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.
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 😂😂
You can have cloudflare ip instead thus covering the ip issue. Then you can block app traffic to windows and only allow tcp ports used for ssh and web visitors. Finally, you can have a strong firewall while having your own computer running as a server.
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.
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.
*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.
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?
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
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
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?
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?
It worth it if you use a dedicated computer for your server. Hosting is expensive even with these cheep plans, after a year you pay regular price like other webhost, Plus they sell your information to a third party like a wh0r3.
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!
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.
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).
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
Then youll need to look into buying your own server/servers. Not hosting onto a computer. Itll be a large upfront cost, but youll skip on the hosting bills for the foreseeable future
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?
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
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
Adding the code mentioned at 4:45
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#Virtual Hosts
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ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
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)?
hey man ..can you do one on how to connect the shopify (external domain to this?)
Hi emit, are you willing to do an hourly rate consultation call via zoom with me to answer some questions about hosting my own web server? Thanks, TJ
You know what? This is too much to do at 1AM. This is a tomorrow project.
Lol bruh
realest shit ever seen by the maankind
3:00 am
Ok
LOL 5am here am Im feelin the same way
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 $300 a month for a hosting companies crap dedicated server that is only giving me 1 cpu in a 2 cpu per node system. The only thing I could say that a hosting company has better would be unlimited bandwidth but depending on what level of high traffic users you have, it may not be necessary depending on the size of your web pages and how many pages each user goes to before logging out.
IS there a step by step written list to follow to do this? I had a buddy of mine that let me host a site on his server, but when he moved out, the agreement expired and I dont have the server available anymore. I want a step by step how to. step 1, click this, step 2, type this, step 3 press 4 to repeat this message, yada yada yada. no wordpress, no squarespace, none of that crap. all on my own server or raspberry pi even.
@@JacksonSubNScaleModelRailroad theres free online webservers you can use.
I've been hosting a hobby website on my home server for 2 years and, unbelievably, I get better speed and uptime than my professionally hosted websites. I just added a battery backup in case there is a power out.
How do you host it on a server? I have my own I just don’t know how to actually host it.
Gonna have to explain your ask in clearer detail. Your computer becomes the 'server' it's hosted on.
Do you have to get a business connection to allow others to connect to your computer?
Because your website is available (probably) only in your network and also your devices can have almost direct connections as your home server isn't kilometres away
@@rickeyponder if get enough traffic probably best to do so
I'm thinking of hosting my own site on a separate low-power machine. The huge upside is backups. It's a pain to schedule a backup on a web-hosting. You have to do it manually, or pay extra, and then download it manually still. On a home PC you can just schedule it, and it will backup the whole system, and do incremental backups. And you can use an old 10$ (or even free) chunk-a-junk pc, or even android tablet for that.
gotta agree with you. there are plenty of reasons to want to host your own website. not even considering the knowledge gained from doing it yourself.
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.
That's cool asl.
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
Technicality you can run it on a VM and the ip address is only pinned to that VM
Okay I really need an answer this is literally a great idea
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
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.
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@ 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.
I admire the effort in making this video... (the visuals and everything). nice work !! 👍
You could do this for practice purposes, may be you could get a job at one of the hosting providers. It helps get an idea of how things really work..
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.
Your energy is very inspirational @emit
Thank you for teaching
Thank you so much! Im happy you find the content useful, Ill try to keep makin more as long as people keep watching and learning :)
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 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
Well, the reason you would host it at home is for experience. Lots of people like to know the behind the scenes, so I think being able to do it is great experience.
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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.
@@JohnnyThund3r What is a VM?
@@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.
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 😂😂
It's still an interesting option for people with small, personal projects who live in countries with weak currency, in which the dollar is expensive.
You can have cloudflare ip instead thus covering the ip issue. Then you can block app traffic to windows and only allow tcp ports used for ssh and web visitors. Finally, you can have a strong firewall while having your own computer running as a server.
Btw in this part:
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
It's now:
Require all granted
(old code is for apache 2.2 and new one is for 2.4+)
Good stuff man I forgot this was even an option! Lol but yeah it makes a lot of sense to go just get something you don't have to worry about later!
I want to do it to avoid censorship.
why the system keep asking for all the versions of c++ ????
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.
how did you solve when it stops apache from starting
You made this video so interesting and fun to watch. You are awesome Emit 💯
5:04 where is that code at?
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.
The whole video kinda seemed like an ad in disguise for hostinger but yeah it can be a security risk
best youtube video i ever seen.
ok, the problem is I have a dedicated server and I haven't access to the router what now?
Wonderful explainer. Thanks for taking so much time to put it together.
*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.
That was a fun, and very funny video !
That has a lot of good info...
omg ur vid is so good i learnd so much thank u man i luv u
Best affiliate video ever! Lol
Very good tutorial, but I wish you showed a way to do it without disabling your firewall, it'd be cool to do this without compromising security.
Awesome content omg youre a life saver
I subscribed! Whyever not? EXCELLENT presentation, think I'll take your advice! Thanks!
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?
Any time i hear your🙃 say Wamp~ then i take back my focus 😆
i like it !! very helpful!!
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
what was your solution
this part:
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
should now be this:
Require all granted
I just get "forbidden" whenever I try and access it from another server.
What about connecting to a dynamic IP address as most people do not have static IP addresses?
great video as always!
Great interactive video.
Very good video, explained all my questions, thanks!
You're welcome my dude
I appreciate you man. nice video!
You may use dynamic domain, it's free.
Love your work
Thanks man!
I love digital pixels!
I am going to host a video service website, does hostinger offer 50tb of storage? No. so how is this dumb?
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
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?
Adobe after effects / Adobe Premiere pro. I usually take around 1week to edit a video. Working roughly 5-8 hours a day
@@Emit.ReviewsIt shows! Nicely done😊
I get the feeling it will get the same reaction but what about a actual home server?
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?
when i change localhost to my ip, wamp doesn't connect apache and stays orange.....what should i do?
great video!
Comments are meant to help each other and create a community for ourselves
Great Vid
wait cant i use a load balancer to hide my server and only allow access to that load balancer
This is so helpful
Hi, how can I point my domain to my localhost address? I only can nameserver change on my registrar
well done
Perfect short and quick, working explanation!
thanks
how would someone do this if we already have all the data for a website downloaded?
Just create an empty WP instance on your server. Upload the files and change your wp config files as well as the database names
It worth it if you use a dedicated computer for your server. Hosting is expensive even with these cheep plans, after a year you pay regular price like other webhost, Plus they sell your information to a third party like a wh0r3.
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!
Excuse I, don't see an explanation of what an IP address is in the AOL manual. Can you help me?
Is there an option to do this but with a cloud based storage for the website data?
apache not working after editing the conf file???
Hey I have a question on my broadband there is a usb port can I hook up a hard drive and host a small website from there?
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.
Nice vid. Learned a couple things. But I'm not only future subscriber...I am also Emmett. You have it spelled wrong XD
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).
I'm going to use this with a private wi-fi network that is not connected to the internet.
Could you please make a video of how to do it using LAMP?
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
Then youll need to look into buying your own server/servers. Not hosting onto a computer. Itll be a large upfront cost, but youll skip on the hosting bills for the foreseeable future
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?
We are need static IP Address for this ?
Can you give any communication medium for contact you ?
The thing is that I have my old pc that really is pretty shit so I wanted it to be for a use, is it a good idea to use it?
how do you acces the website on a different devise after allowing it??
great
Awesome content!
can you help us out setting up ours?
Hey Man it was a really nice video but what about Linux users will WAMP work the same way🤔
So is this considered a dedicated server?
My website for me works but for others is my modem page ?
I need more space than hosting services can provide I need help running my own server.
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
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
All commends and procedures are wrong., nothing works
8:41 did anyone noted the templerun sound?
What if i create (no-ip) domain with it works on wan connection
Wordpress install not coming up, doublechecked all the steps
What is your computer doing on my computer
Chillin
My wamp server dosen't activates just opens alot of cmds
LAMP be like -_- yeah very fancy
I put my earpods right at the scream at the beginning and blue my eardrums. But why? Necessary? didn't even continue watching