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How to Set Up a Linux Home Server from Start to Finish – for Dummies!

Setting up a basic Linux home server from start to finish. We’ll be mirroring our hard disks, installing docker, setting up NGINX, Minecraft and Samba and adding some personal flair and customisations!

Command that was obscured by my face:
docker run -it -p 25565:25565 –name littleroot-minecraft -v /hdds/swraid/games/mcserver:/hmnt/mcserver -d debian bash

Bash prompt gen: https://bash-prompt-generator.org/
Ascii image converter: https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter

Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction and Overview
1:27 – Download the Debian ISO
2:07 – Create Install Media (from Linux)
4:32 – Create Install Media (from Windows)
6:20 – Debian Installation
15:48 – SSH in and Set Up Sudo
20:10 – Basic SSH Security Hardening
24:48 – Disk Mirroring and Filesystems
34:26 – Installing Docker
37:26 – Configuring Web Server (NGINX)
41:01 – Configuring Minecraft Server
48:26 – Configuring File Server (SAMBA)
53:51 – Setting up a Firewall (UFW)
56:08 – Setting a cool Message of the Day (MOTD)
1:00:01 – Setting a cool Bash prompt
1:03:01 – Summary and Outro
1:04:21 – Funny Out-takes and Errors

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6 thoughts on “How to Set Up a Linux Home Server from Start to Finish – for Dummies!

  • this is so cool i wish i had any reason or means(got only 1 laptop) to create my own home server
    this is insane consider you got only 500 views with such a quality
    hope that your next project would be more useful for me lol

  • Damn, I knew all of this, there was literally nothing new to me, but the way you explained and went through it was just simply great. Awesome video with just the right level of depth for the target audience. Keep on doing this! You are good at this stuff.

  • usermod remember hack: separate the combined flags: usermod –all –group sudo myuser 🙂 (usermod -aG sudo myuser)

  • Great video, bit of a weird edition mid way you started to slurp jam off your toes but im down for it!

  • literally did this 24 hours ago and you gave me some ideas to add to my new os, thanks homie!

  • how and why does this only have 11 views lol ur my new favorite youtuber

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