Installing Akash Hosting

Installing Wordpress on Akash with a few clicks + pointing to a Handshake domain

Decentralized hosting, decentralized database, decentralized domain - let’s dive into it here!

Thanks to this amazing tool GUI (currently Windows only, Mac coming soon)
https://www.akashlytics.com/deploy

Steps on How to Deploy WordPress using Akashlytics Deploy Tool

1. Open Akashlytics deploy tool
2. Import the wallet that you have created in the above guide
3. Click Create Certificate
4. Select AVG (0.005AKT)
5. Click Approve and wait for it to complete
6. Under Deployments, click Create Deployment
7. Click Continue
8. Select WordPress and click Continue
9. Update “YOURDOMAIN.COM” with your domain in the template file
10. Click Create Deployment
11. Select AVG (0.005AKT)
12. Click Approve and wait for it to complete
13. Select from the bids
14. Click Accept Bid
15. Select AVG (0.005AKT)
16. Click Approve and wait for it to complete
17. Check the Details tab and copy the Akash link of your application (the one that ends in akashian.io)
18. Go to your DNS records and add a CNAME entry with that value
19. Wait for it to propagate
20. Done

Also references, a great guide from Anthony Rose on Akash and websites
https://anthonyrosa.medium.com/deploy-a-website-from-scratch-to-akash-7844c9150fe4

Akash Networks (And How Handshake Works Together)

Intro Greg Osuri
CEO and Founder of Akash Networks

Mike’s understanding / way to explain Akash:
Akash is Cloud Compute - decentralized
SO instead of us, as a customer of Amazon AWS or Google Cloud, we pay nodes (decentralized independent companies/people) who have excess compute power - to compute things for our projects.
Hope I’m correct ? 😉


Involving Handshake - So SkyInclude is a Handshake channel
How do Akash and Handshake help each other out 😉

Running WordPress on Akash, with a Handshake Domain
So many want to use WordPress with their handshake name - and I’ve seen tweets and articles that Akash supports this - can you give a brief idea on how it works?

The stack - Akash, decentralized storage, and Handshake
We still need storage, right - like Sia, IPFS, Arweave right? So the stack is these 3 - Akash for processing compute, then say Sia for hosting the files, and Handshake for an easy to remember domain name on the decentralized web.

Screenshare a bit?
Greg, I’m sorry but I usually make tutorials and demos on this channel - but I am not yet familiar enough / technical enough with Akash - I simply do Handshake names with more GUI web interfaces - can we see how it works with Akash today on your screen?


Akash Mini (hardware)
Can you tell us about the mini! Looks so amazing!

Any way we can have HNS resolver collaborations?


So Akash is pretty amazing - how can people get started?
Of course - Invest in AKT if you want some exposure (do your own research, as always) - but from a user / technical standpoint - how can someone use Akash for their web project - akash.network

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