The most important aspect of operating your own web server is to ensure that it is always running. That means keeping the operating system up-to-date by installing the latest pacthes. But also, you have to seriously consider how to protect your web server from a power outage.
You may think that a power cut will only make your websites unavailable for a short period of time and you can live with the outage. However, power cuts can cause more havoc than you may think.
If you design WordPress websites for a living, or perhaps as a hobby, you have likely encountered the problem where you want to replace an existing website with a new version that you have created locally.
If your website is a static website, with only HTML and CSS files, then you can easily copy these files over to your website hosting provider or your own server with minimal downtime. However, it can get more complicated if you use a WordPress website - Or any website that has a...
For the past few years, I have run a few websites on a Raspberry Pi 3B at home. I decided to do this just because I like to do some general tinkering with gadgets, but also because I thought it would be a cheaper way of hosting websites. But is the Raspberry Pi web server performance adequate?
Now I am going to share with you what I have learned whilst using the Raspberry Pi as a web server. You might even want to try setting up your own server.