Gregory Ballantine
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Back in the day, even as far back as the late 90's, you needed a website to be seen as a participant in the web. And
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The Hardware
Honestly, anything will do. From options as expensive and powerful as multi-server AMD Epyc- or Intel Xeon-backed clusters, all the way down to Single-Board Computers like the Raspberry Pi or Orange Pi, you can use anything that is supported by your Linux distribution of choice.
The Operating System
Today we're going to go with Debian Bookworm. Ubuntu, OpenSUSE Leap, and AlmaLinux are just as good, but I'm more familiar with Debian and I love the community-backed distro. And Bookworm (aka Debian 12) is the current stable version of Debian as of the writing of this article.
The Web Server
Nginx! Or Apache, both are cool. But I'm more familiar with Nginx and it's faster anyway.