How to turn a pc into a web hosting server and host your websites.

Install aaPanel 

aaPanel is a Free and Open source but powerful control panel for Linux servers. Hosting Control Panel.

Features of aaPanel control panel 

Some aapanel vital features are outlined below: 

1. aapanel allows you to install only the extensions you want. 
2. With aapanel server resources are managed in real time. 
3. aapanel has a robust online editor 
4. aapanel has free security extension, making it very secure to use. It is cross-platform 
5. aapanel utilizes very minimal system resources. it provides a one-click function for developing environment and software Task scheduling e.g database and website backup are effortless. 
6. aapanel makes File management a simple activity. Features of aaPanel control panel Some aapanel vital features are outlined below: 
7. aapanel allows you to install only the extensions you want. 
8. With aapanel server resources are managed in real-time. 
9. aapanel has a robust online editor aapanel has free security extension which makes it very secure to use. It is cross-platform aapanel utilizes very minimal system resources. 
10. it provides a one-click function for developing environment and software Task scheduling e.g database and website backup are effortless. 
11. aapanel makes File management a simple activity.

Setup Pre-requisites

Ensure you have the following requirements in place:

• The memory of 4GB and above.
• The hard disk of 500GB or more
• Clean Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 with no Apache/Nginx/php/MySQL installed.

In this video, I'll show you How to turn a pc into a web hosting server like cPanel and host your websites Free and easy way.

1. Install the Ubuntu server

Install Ubuntu server 20.04 or 18.04

2. Log in to the Server 

Access to the root user account (or access to an admin account with root privileges).


3. Update the Server OS Packages

apt-get update -y 

apt-get upgrade -y

Or,

sudo apt update -y 

sudo apt upgrade -y 

sudo apt-get update -y 

sudo apt-get upgrade -y 

sudo reboot

And install wget

sudo apt install wget

aaPanel installation script

wget -O install.sh http://www.aapanel.com/script/install-ubuntu_6.0_en.sh && sudo bash install.sh aapanel