How to Host Your Website on AWS EC2 and Cost Effectively with Full Control

If you want to host your website on AWS, you might be overwhelmed by the many options available. How do you choose the best one for your needs? In this video, I will share with you my own personal experience and show you how to host your website on AWS EC2, the old-school way with full control and flexibility.
I have tried different hosting platforms in the past, such as Heroku, A2 Hosting, Netlify, and Vercel, as well as AWS ECS. But none of them gave me the satisfaction and freedom that I get from hosting on AWS EC2. In this video, I will walk you through the steps to set up your own website on AWS EC2, from creating an instance to deploying your code. You will learn how to host your website on AWS EC2 with confidence and ease.
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[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

@02:35 - YES to Docker / Kubernetes deployment. - Just found your channel. Excellent content, another sub for you sir!

[@coderaiders-yt]

Awesome, thank you!

[@boomikauba5232]

@@coderaiders-yt yes please do it soon

[@hsider]

You're right about having control over the server configuration and build process, those fancy services push you to spend money on things you don't need, i want to deploy my own DB and not pay for PostgreSql could service, for most of my projects all I need is simply reproduce my local environment on a server. Great video like always

[@coderaiders-yt]

Really appreciated this comment. Thanks for the good feedback and also was relieved to hear another person has aligned views on this. Wasn't sure how folk would feel about the approach.

[@hsider]

@@coderaiders-yt you're welcome, it's not that hard to deploy an app by yourself as you show it in this video. Add to that it's bloody expensive if you choose easy solutions, it's better if you take time to understand and learn how to do it and there are guides and steps to follow just as the one you provided in written format , that's what I look for personally, I can read lol. Once again keep making these kinda vides, it pushes independent learning forward 👌

[@olumideajose2162]

@@hsider Convenience comes with a cost, you are right.

[@JamieMetcalfe-jb7ok]

Greate video once again. An ecs and docker walkthrough would be a very interesting video, I look forward to that

[@coderaiders-yt]

Sounds like a good idea, thank you

[@smithy2170]

I could follow along with half of this, & that’s an improvement 😂

[@coderaiders-yt]

Awesome and good effort!

[@aryanmishra8537]

Amazing content! and yes would love a video on Docker, also can you show a video for elastic beanstalk deployment too.

[@Fullstack_LP]

This was great. Super helpful. Thank you

[@MrTomer157]

Awesome sir . Thank you!

[@Fmwins]

Thank you, your vid helped me a lot!

[@coderaiders-yt]

Fantastic!

[@nikibala-gn7hp]

Thanks a lot for very useful content. I have a question regarding Reserved Instances: it is not possible to choose ubuntu as platform when you want to purchase an instance. So is it relevant or just the machine is important here. How about i lunch 2 EC2 for production to have higher availability? Do i need to purchase same machine multiple times in Reserved Instances, right?

[@omersoncruz1081]

Awesome thanks for this tutorial. Just what I needed. Keep 'em coming. Can you also pols make some tutorials on React

[@coderaiders-yt]

Sounds good thank you. Am using React in the next code package which think you will like.

[@5MATANYA55]

hi! greate video but i obstacle with problem the certificate for some reason stuck on pending validation how i can solve this?

[@henkjekel4081]

hi shaun:) I build your Rachel app which has a frontend and a backend, this video doesn't include the backend, do I just make a second connection to my instance and run the backend there?

[@coderaiders-yt]

I'll try get a deployment series out as this seems to be a common issue folk are running into. Recommend to run NGINX. You will find a template for NGINX on Code Raiders in the meantime.

[@gourmetpro6784]

do reverseProxy's Dockerfile and frontend's Dockerfile have the same content, could you show us whats inside the frontend's Dockerfile?

[@coderaiders-yt]

The docker file will be different between a reverse proxy and a frontend. A docker file is like a set of instructions for what to install on a machine and run in a command line. These differ between applications such as frontend and NGINX.

[@miguel5088]

Send the link to the website you hosted using AWS EC2

[@uuultraaa]

if I dont know how to code should I stay away from AWS and go for a more basic hosting service?

[@coderaiders-yt]

I would recommend to start with something basic first like Vercel.

[@uuultraaa]

@@coderaiders-yt Thank you :) but what about Lightsail?

[@adamtang5148]

Hmm... 6 months passed and is "project becoming complex caused qwik failed" still true?

[@coderaiders-yt]

Nope, am using Qwik a lot now. It works great. Also this video was done before Qwiks 1.0 production release.

[@user-wi3ds5vd9b]

How can i deploy my site with .zip file?

[@user-wi3ds5vd9b]

@coderaiders8722 please how can i go about it

[@coderaiders-yt]

Not sure on this one. I dont know why you would use a zip file.

[@sandiguha]

Skinny Tom Hardy

[@coderaiders-yt]

Ill take it.