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How to host a WordPress website on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Buster Lite and Nginx

If you are thinking of starting a blog about computer technology, then you can consider hosting a WordPress website on your Raspberry Pi.

Since Raspberry Pi is a capable machine that does not take up too much space and power, it is a good as a web server.

In addition, if you have an Internet subscription that does not block port 80 and 443, hosting a WordPress at home can be cost effective.

Given these points, let’s look at how we can host a WordPress website on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Buster and Nginx.

Installing Certbot on Raspbian Buster for obtaining Let’s Encrypt’s browser-trusted certificates for your Raspberry Pi server applications

When you build Raspberry Pi server projects with Raspbian Buster, browser-trusted certificates can be needed.

Since the inception of Let’s Encrypt, many webmasters had been able to deploy web applications that encrypt communication channels with browser-trusted certificates.

Most importantly, Let’s Encrypt provide all the magic for free.

Let’s Encrypt certificates are automatically issued by software participating in the ACME protocol. Therefore, we will need to run such a software on a Raspberry Pi web server for serving HTTPS with browser-trusted certificates.

Given that, let’s see how we can install Certbot on Raspbian Buster.

How to setup Raspbian Buster for your Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Since the Raspberry pi 4 Model B comes with several nice upgrades, it is a single board computer that you may want to get.

After you got your Raspberry Pi 4 rig and microSD card, the next step will be to setup an operating system.

At this point in time, you may want to install one of the Raspbian Buster images that got released for the Pi 4.

With that in mind, read on to learn how to setup Raspbian Buster for your Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.

A review of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B from a not-so-early adopter

When a single board computer has 4GB of RAM, you can use it as a capable IoT gateway or desktop computing. In addition to that, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B maintains the same dimensions as its credit card sized predecessor, the Pi 3B+.

Although there are several single board computers which provided 4GB of ram, they are priced more than the US$55 price tag. Given that, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model 4 with 4GB of ram is a very attractive offering.

In case you are wondering whether you should buy the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, read on for more perspectives.