These how-to guides that will help you start an create a simple and cheap server solution that will cost around $20/month. These guides includes:
- Introduction
- Domain Name
- Purchase
- Configuration (DNS)
- Transfer from GoDaddy
- Create and configurure your personal virtual server
- Remote desktop access
- Hosting web sites / apps on a virtual machine (Windows Server / IIS)
- Configure your first small business or personal web site
- WordPress
- PHP
- MySQL
- WordPress
- Host ASP.NET Web Application
- IIS
- SQL Server
- Send-Receive Emails
- Outgoing (local smtp / IIS), using:
- Integrated Windows SMTP Relay Service IIS
- or hmailserver (preferred)
- Configuring DKIM for hmailserver
- or AWS SES (Simple Email Service)
- Outgoing alternative
- Incoming (MX, txt, spf, pop, accounts, catch-all, …)
- Outgoing (local smtp / IIS), using:
- SVN Server
- FTP Server
- Network and Security
- Firewall
- private and public IP
- Monitoring
- External tools to monitor your web sites
- Use CloudWatch Alerts to monitor cpu usage / credits
- Troubleshooting
- Logging
- Performance issues
- etc
You can get all that running, for about $20/month, on a EC2 T2.Micro Virtual Machine.
Let’s begin with…