Choosing a device for our server

I bet you’re excited to set up your very own installation of Ubuntu Server and dive in. But before we can do that, we have to decide what to actually install it on. For the purposes of this book, there isn’t a specific requirement in terms of hardware. You just need an Ubuntu Server installation of some sort, and it wouldn’t hurt to set up multiple servers if you can—you don’t need them all to be on the same device type. Having multiple servers will help you experiment with networking when we get to that point later on in the book. But for now, it’s only a matter of utilizing whatever you have at your disposal to get an Ubuntu installation going.

In particular, the following list includes the most common devices you can consider for your Ubuntu Server installation:

• Physical server
• Physical desktop
• Laptop
• Virtual machine
• Virtual private server
• Raspberry Pi

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