How To Host a Website At Home For Free

No need to buy expensive cloud servers, you can just host simple things right from home using a computer that you already have. Host websites on Linux, Mac, Windows, and any type of computer in between. It's easy to get going.

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[Raua]

something i learned as a teen setting up a minecraft server; change your ip to a static one. a dynamic one will mean that when you restart youll get a fresh ip, and it will break

[daviddk]

Your videos are always so educational, to the point and simple to follow, I love them!

[thanoskoutr]

Great and quick video for hosting from your home, but two things you didn't cover and I think its important for beginners is to make sure the local IP of your hosting PC, that you put on the port forwarding setting has to be static or else if the router gives your computer a new local IP you have to change the port forwarding setting and its annoying.
And the second thing, is if you don't have a dynamic dns service to track your public IP the domain stuff won't work, because the ISP will change it after e.g. a router restart. I think some routers have that ability, but mostly the ISP provided ones don't have those features.

[alexstabell]

I love your videos. It really gives us amateurs a little footing when trying to venture out into doing something a bit more technical. Enough to get us to a point where we can fill in the gaps to figure out the rest. Thank you so much.

I was trying to figure this out a few years ago with my Raspberry Pi but could never get past the local network issue. Now I think I'll try again and start the journey of making a website to help myself learn HTML.

[ZacKoch]

You don't know how happy I am that you also use ipchicken. I've had several people over the years be like wtf is that lol.

[Anymouse]

Really important thing missing from this video is that often the ISP doesn't give you public IP at all, much less a static one. They often just put you behind their NAT.

[billgross]

Another pitfall: ISPs often assign *dynamic ip* addresses to home subscriptions. How would you suggest someone deal with that?

[ThrillDaWill]

is there way to do this in something like python? I cant run the server.

[JeroenTrappers]

Might be useful to mention : for dynamic ip addresses use dyndns, create cname record to it. Also the local ip: configure DHCP server to allocate specific ip per mac address, especially for servers.

[Avighna]

Bro you just explained something I was confused with for 5 years in 7 minutes

[mayur]

Good info but most of the ISPs don't provide a static IP out of the box. Mostly it is a dynamic IP behind a NAT which changes frequently and being NAT'd you cannot forward your incoming connection to your local network.

[Expensiveusername]

DUDE YOUR AWESOME NOW MY DAD IS GONNA BE SUPER IMPRESSED THANK YOU

[GAMERAayush]

Please continue the series automating android games

[bits]

I just love this videos, short, concise and clearly presented informations.. Great job again!

[denniswilliamsjr]

Can you make a follow up video with firewall rules to protect web server please ?

[edward]

didn't our public ip address is assigned by our ISP and it changes every day?
I checked it several timesfor several days and every time I got a new ip address
and if the IP address is changed then we need to reconfigure our router port forwarding setting.

It will work till our ip address is the same then it will not work that's why server's ip address are specific

[zoomosis]

0:27 I suspect you can run a web server on a non-rooted Android device as long as the web server is listening on a port above 1024. The router should happily redirect port 80 to the >1024 port.

[LegionLeague]

Can someone explain what path to put in the nginx.conf file? Does "root" mean your C: (or whatever drive letter) drive?

[whiism]

ok this was actually rly usefull as starter point thanks man

[MacoveiVlad]

It would be useful to mention that residential IPs usually change when the router looses power and reconnects to the ISPs network. Some ISPs provide a Dynamic DNS service so that you can link your dynamic IP to a static domain. I think there are a couple of free options to accomplish this. Asus has a dynamic DNS that can be uses for their routers.