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Hello and welcome.

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Glad you could join us for our new course today.

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We're going to set up and host multiple Web sites on a single digital ocean droplet using virtual hosts

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although we're using Digital Ocean.

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You could follow along with any cloud hosting provider of your choice.

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In case you're wondering why you would want to take this class.

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Well there's many reasons primarily You may want to cut costs on your own hosting fees.

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If you have multiple Web sites many administrators create separate servers for each web site and this

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can quickly become very costly.

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By hosting multiple Web sites on one resource you eliminate the need for so many different servers.

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Another reason is that you want to start your own hosting company where you charge clients a fee for

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hosting and administering their Web site.

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Although this course is only an introduction it will give you a good starting point for branching out

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into offering hosting services.

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In this class we'll be configuring our server using lamp stack on Ubuntu eighteen point zero for this

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is the latest version as of today's date.

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But the concepts we cover can be applied to any version including or higher than you wouldn't to fourteen

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point zero for.

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Keep in mind if you're using an older version of Ubuntu you no longer receive security updates.

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So would be a great time to update this course requires some basic knowledge of executing commands through

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terminal.

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If you're on a Windows machine you can use poddy if you need further information on how to use these

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tools and run basic commands on a server.

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You can take our web development master class however will be running the commands directly in this

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class so you can easily just follow along as well.

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In this course you learn to configure name servers DNS zone files and virtual hosts in order to serve

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multiple Web sites on a single server.

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Each of our domains will have a separate SSL certificate as well.

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The SSL certificate authority will be using is let's encrypt.

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This is a great resource if you're looking for a quick free and simple way to secure your web pages.

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Another point worth mentioning is we'll be doing all our setup in configuring using a root user account

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as explained in our web development master class.

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It's always a good practice to disable the root user account.

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Once setup is complete and create a new user to keep your server secure.

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Since we already covered this in another course we won't be going over it again.

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Setting up multiple domains on one virtual server is fairly easy.

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Keep in mind it needs to be done carefully from the beginning so you don't run into issues later on

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that can be more challenging to resolve.

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For this class you'll need the following items a Mac or Linux system with terminal or any command line

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console of your choice.

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If you're on a Windows machine you'll need to download puttee S-sh client.

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You'll need the domain names for each site that you want to host on your digital ocean dropping.

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This means you must have the domain names registered and accessible.

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If you do not have domain names you will not be able to install the SSL certificate or test your configuration.

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You'll need access to the name server configuration from your domain name registrar.

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You also need a digital ocean account or an account with any virtual cloud hosting provider of your

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choice.