The Raspberry Pi is a low cost device and it consumes low power. It can be used as a web server with your home internet and you will have complete freedom to implement ideas. Nowadays popular cloud services are costing high for the same specifications and recently banned some websites for showing some legal terms. This post will guide you how to configure and host a website on your home Raspberry Pi device with AT&T home network. All of my web applications hosted on my home server Raspberry Pi 8GB with external SSD, I usally costs under $99.

Web hosting in India is a mixed bag. There are lots of local companies based in places like Pune, Bangalore, and Chennai, but none of the web hosts own their data centers. Instead, they're leased out, and this means they don't have direct access to the servers. Hostgator on the other hand, is a well-known brand that has the resources to manage its own servers. And due to their discounts and coupons, they have some of the cheapest web hosting on the market.

Anyone who wants to increase performance and security of your web page, I suggest to have Cloudflare setup in your DNS system. I have posted few articles to install paid SSL certificate for your web page, all which needs your complete support to maintain. But, Cloudflare provides free SSL certificates with a limited access (which is enough for any website) and it takes care most of the support that your web page needs. Most importantly, nowadays Google is providing better preferences for the web pages which has HTTPs as the protocol and more chances for your web page to appear on Google search.

Very long time back I had published an article about Amazon Cloud installation, nowadays Amazon Web Services is offering 12 months free trial for micro instance with 700 MB RAM. Now they simplified a few interface setting for the installation process, this post will explain to you how to set up an Amazon micro instance with Ubuntu operating system and XAMPP server. Try this for your first web project.