AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a popular hosting provider due to it’s stability and extensive features. It has a great track record of uptime and security as well as advanced features and performance. The cost is significantly higher than other VPS providers but is a premium option for businesses seeking reliable cloud hosting services.
You can use EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) to deploy an instance of Linux and install Media Control Panel. We have a dedicated Video Guide that you can follow here, as well as a full write up below.
We recommend you review our system requirements page for recommended hardware before choosing a instance. In our guide we use C7A Large, C7A instances are powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processes and provide great performance. They offer an expansive range of instance sizes ranging from 1 vCPU/2 GB Memory to 192 vCPU/ 384 GB Memory. They also offer a very high bandwidth 12.5 Gbps network. To chose the instance size that works best for you review our recommended hardware and decide what most closely matches your use case.
Configuring and Deploying Instance
This guide will assist you in deploying a new instance, generating an SSH key, and configuring your network and firewall settings to work with MediaCP.
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- Navigate to EC2
- Launch a new instance
- Set a name for the instance ie “MediaCP”
- Choose the Debian 12 Amazon Machine Image
- Select your Instance Type, we used C7A large as an example
- Create and download a new SSH key pair in the PuTTY .ppk format if you are using PuTTY on Windows or the .pem format if using MacOS or Linux
- In Network Settings Enable Allow HTTPS traffic from the internet & Allow HTTP traffic from the internet
- Configure your servers firewall by creating new security group rules. Add in inbound security rules to allow the relevant ports in our system requirements
- Configure storage to meet our system requirements, we used 50 GB as an example but your storage needs will depend on your use case.
- Launch instance
- Once successfully setup select the instance and ensure status shows checks passed
Connecting via SSH
Once you have successfully deployed your instance you can use PuTTY and your SSH key to connect to your server via SSH.
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- Copy the servers Public IPv4 address and open PuTTY
- Input the Public IPv4 address
- Navigate to the SSH auth credentials and select the private key previously downloaded
- Select “Open” to connect to the server via SSH
- Login as admin user
- Run
sudo suto swap to root user - Run
whoamito ensure you are logged in as root - Run
cdto navigate to root directory - You are now ready to manage your server and install MediaCP
Once you have successfully deployed your instance you can open your terminal and use your SSH key to connect to your server via SSH.
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- Open your terminal
- Copy the provided Public IPv4 address
- Download and confirm .pem SSH key location
- Run the following command replacing the path the SSH key and IP Adress with your servers details:
ssh -i /path/to/sshkey.pem admin@IPAddress - Once connected to server run
sudo suto swap to root user - Run
whoamito ensure you are logged in as root - Run
cdto navigate to root directory - You are now ready to manage your server and install MediaCP.
Installing MediaCP
To install MediaCP you can simply follow our detailed installation guide, ensuring you update system packages. Alternatively, you can have our team of experts complete the installation process for you by completing the installation request form ensuring you provide your private SSH key.
