Building a Website on a Raspberry Pi: A 15-Step Guide

2025-01-19
Building a Website on a Raspberry Pi: A 15-Step Guide

This comprehensive tutorial details the author's journey of building a personal website on a Raspberry Pi. It covers everything from acquiring the necessary hardware and setting up a headless Pi to installing an Apache server, obtaining an HTTPS certificate, and registering a domain name. The author walks through HTML/CSS development, virtual host configuration, backups, SEO optimization using Google Search Console, user tracking with GoatCounter, bot protection with fail2ban, automatic updates, and monitoring CPU/RAM usage. The guide culminates with a fascinating account of stress-testing the website via Hacker News and the lessons learned from community feedback, making it a valuable resource for aspiring web developers.