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 ➜ www.wampserver.com/en/
► WordPress ➜ 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

[@Emit.Reviews]

Adding the code mentioned at 4:45 # #Virtual Hosts # ServerName localhost ServerAlias localhost DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www" Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews AllowOverride All Require local

[@justrosy5]

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)?

[@MaxStudioCG2023]

hey man ..can you do one on how to connect the shopify (external domain to this?)

[@hygiverse]

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

[@doobiescoo]

You know what? This is too much to do at 1AM. This is a tomorrow project.

[@zenken3919]

Lol bruh

[@Daniel_slz_Trumpet]

realest shit ever seen by the maankind

[@salemzeid4437]

3:00 am

[@pavlematovic2116]

Ok

[@jayboone1888]

LOL 5am here am Im feelin the same way

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

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.

[@Pikle31]

How do you host it on a server? I have my own I just don’t know how to actually host it.

[@gothboibussi]

Gonna have to explain your ask in clearer detail. Your computer becomes the 'server' it's hosted on.

[@rickeyponder]

Do you have to get a business connection to allow others to connect to your computer?

[@superidol4670]

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

[@Moodboard39]

@@rickeyponder if get enough traffic probably best to do so

[@brandonjohnson3566]

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.

[@JacksonSubNScaleModelRailroad]

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.

[@atetraxx]

@@JacksonSubNScaleModelRailroad theres free online webservers you can use.

[@Drak_Thedp]

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.

[@paulboehringer2348]

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.

[@tonnympagim]

Your energy is very inspirational @emit Thank you for teaching

[@Emit.Reviews]

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 :)

[@mbayaayiga4993]

I admire the effort in making this video... (the visuals and everything). nice work !! 👍

[@KingPBJames]

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.

[@solarislawson4152]

That's cool asl.

[@BoshiNagare]

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.

[@mentatsolutions1101]

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.

[@KingPBJames]

@@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

[@felipegimenezfgds]

​@@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

[@yonathanrodriquez5387]

Technicality you can run it on a VM and the ip address is only pinned to that VM

[@AiGeneratedMango]

Would this work?

[@EVRider]

Wonderful explainer. Thanks for taking so much time to put it together.

[@johnthemannn]

great video as always!

[@user-rd2ro4pg5u]

Perfect short and quick, working explanation!

[@JuantheJohn1]

I appreciate you man. nice video!

[@mubasharqadeerSAP]

Love your work

[@Emit.Reviews]

Thanks man!

[@abrahamnorada6815]

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

[@ivvveboy4573]

omg ur vid is so good i learnd so much thank u man i luv u

[@chrisjerrodwright]

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!

[@LuxHack]

Thank you!

[@harunisjohn3783]

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.

[@RaulEng]

Awesome content omg youre a life saver

[@savageteam354k4]

i like it !! very helpful!!

[@RJHadleyFlorida]

This is so helpful

[@dennismacwilliams196]

That was a fun, and very funny video ! That has a lot of good info...

[@coldfrost]

Very good video, explained all my questions, thanks!

[@Emit.Reviews]

You're welcome my dude

[@raybob49]

I subscribed! Whyever not? EXCELLENT presentation, think I'll take your advice! Thanks!

[@ThatoJChere]

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..

[@powerbylightfutureisnow1579]

great video!

[@elatefit8429]

Great interactive video.

[@Colin4President]

best youtube video i ever seen.

[@greenerdayz]

Working together whether subscribing or signing up works for each other to provide success

[@QuidProQuoGroup]

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???

[@0x544]

when i change localhost to my ip, wamp doesn't connect apache and stays orange.....what should i do?

[@nategreig7199]

Great Vid

[@HighSpiritsGuy]

You made this video so interesting and fun to watch. You are awesome Emit 💯

[@ashy7198]

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.

[@fetrush6383]

ok, the problem is I have a dedicated server and I haven't access to the router what now?

[@crazydude4832]

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?

[@miwwie1504]

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.

[@wackycorgi3001]

The whole video kinda seemed like an ad in disguise for hostinger but yeah it can be a security risk

[@davidbristol2253]

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.

[@danvee3928]

Best affiliate video ever! Lol

[@Versings]

5:04 where is that code at?

[@diidimeh]

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 😂

[@JohnnyThund3r]

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.

[@darkthunder2776]

I get the feeling it will get the same reaction but what about a actual home server?

[@lukeb6218]

how do you acces the website on a different devise after allowing it??

[@odiserv]

thanks

[@bluehost-offer]

Amazing content! We appreciate your subscribers, so we're always ready to give them our most exclusive deals

[@cesarcovarrubias92]

Bluehost is a fuckng garbage. Don't ever use this shit.

[@mohamedo_me]

why the system keep asking for all the versions of c++ ????

[@sky_musicsheet]

Any time i hear your🙃 say Wamp~ then i take back my focus 😆

[@olican101]

I just get "forbidden" whenever I try and access it from another server.

[@javiergulli]

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?

[@villagevaliant]

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

[@maggew]

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 😂😂

[@abdulsalamsstyle9933]

well done

[@DontAddMe]

*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.

[@lukasaviles7681]

You may use dynamic domain, it's free.

[@Nicholasclara95]

apache not working after editing the conf file???

[@Vaios1981]

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.

[@b.eduardo5105]

how did you solve when it stops apache from starting

[@lovebirdslane5545]

What about connecting to a dynamic IP address as most people do not have static IP addresses?

[@gamingbvn]

I am going to host a video service website, does hostinger offer 50tb of storage? No. so how is this dumb?

[@Emit.Reviews]

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

[@AdamBanta-wz8nr]

Excuse I, don't see an explanation of what an IP address is in the AOL manual. Can you help me?

[@yahi06]

wait cant i use a load balancer to hide my server and only allow access to that load balancer

[@KalkuehlGaming]

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

[@gothiums]

what was your solution

[@thefinness7849]

@ 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.

[@leandrojuren]

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.

[@zpastock4204]

So is this considered a dedicated server?

[@Hamad-re9vr]

What if i create (no-ip) domain with it works on wan connection

[@tharung9429]

Could you please make a video of how to do it using LAMP?

[@nas-tech]

great

[@cartegeano]

Awesome content! can you help us out setting up ours?

[@SatyamShivam_01]

Hey Man it was a really nice video but what about Linux users will WAMP work the same way🤔

[@strongocho]

I want to do it to avoid censorship.

[@pencilrocket5892]

Does xampp work as a subsitute for wamp?

[@das6109]

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?

[@Emit.Reviews]

Adobe after effects / Adobe Premiere pro. I usually take around 1week to edit a video. Working roughly 5-8 hours a day

[@IM1deadMONEY]

​@@Emit.ReviewsIt shows! Nicely done😊

[@anthonygamer9000]

everytime i keep getting Order is not defined when i do the Order Deny,Allow Deny from all

[@oryonfacey3704]

I need more space than hosting services can provide I need help running my own server.

[@carson2046]

can mac do this?

[@neilcoelho]

Can I do this on a phone?

[@nickokonovalov40]

i cant get in anymore after adding the stuff to vhosts

[@lolexXD.]

My wamp server dosen't activates just opens alot of cmds

[@lukavekichannel]

My website for me works but for others is my modem page ?

[@muhamadsyahmiaimanshahroma1226]

can u show how to host own website using XAMPP databse

[@hiteshpoptani7719]

8:41 did anyone noted the templerun sound?

[@Tortsie]

So is this what i need to do if i want to visit my own website on the same network on my phone.

[@Jay-ym2ri]

does it work for flask

[@sky.riviera]

How did he create wordpress rar

[@alpha5708]

Wamp😂🔥

[@nakedness]

Wouldn't this allow anyone to see your ip address?

[@ivanlinuxandunix]

I'm going to use this with a private wi-fi network that is not connected to the internet.

[@casey42069]

how would someone do this if we already have all the data for a website downloaded?

[@Emit.Reviews]

Just create an empty WP instance on your server. Upload the files and change your wp config files as well as the database names

[@NotAHomelessGamer]

Was the purpose of getting a domain name to have an actual name for the website? I'd like to know if it's possible to skip that step as I just want to create a server for an API.

[@Emit.Reviews]

You can use the IP address no need for domain

[@definitelynotphsycal]

apache isnt starting for me

[@iEscapedVim]

LAMP be like -_- yeah very fancy

[@MrSlpkntmaggot]

Nice vid. Learned a couple things. But I'm not only future subscriber...I am also Emmett. You have it spelled wrong XD

[@basketballtips9025]

Comments are meant to help each other and create a community for ourselves

[@englishworld30]

I want to run a simple blog on wordpress. Which hosting should I use( apart from google cloud,AWS) to handle 30 Million page views. Plz answer

[@fadikazak3372]

If you want to handle 30 million page views you will need something like google cloud or buy a dedicated server, you can also maybe try cloud hosting but normal web hosting is only suited for around 400,000 page views at max.

[@ItzTrickshotHD]

Wordpress install not coming up, doublechecked all the steps

[@sophieberg3634]

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

[@Emit.Reviews]

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!

[@sashobojadjiev2899]

the video explanation is not complete as shown on the video many troubles to complet the set up

[@scottcook878]

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?

[@lfcbpro]

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.

[@Emit.Reviews]

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