Structure

• Short introduction
• Nginx web server setup!

Why?

• 74.44% Windows
• 12.22% macOS
• 9.51% Other
• 1.58% Linux

According to statcounter GlobalStats

Why?

• 69.4% of webservers use a Unix-based OS
• 30.6% of webservers use Windows

According to W³Techs

Where?

• US Department of Defence
• French Parliament
• Amazon - AWS
• Android

Sources: 1

Virtual machines

• We'll be using VMs on the DCS cluster
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Lab sheet

• https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/Linux101/201/Lab-Sheet.pdf

Summary

• We've secured a Linux server
• We've installed Nginx
• We're serving a static website

Where next?

• Application server setup
• Git hosting
• Email hosting
• Decentralised Instant Messaging
• Containerisation
• Self-hosting (kickball/awesome-selfhosted on GitHub)

Future Workshops

• 301: Deploying your application to a Linux server
• Talks
• Server administration
• Embedded systems: Raspberry Pi etc.

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