It was not long ago when I received a message from my friend DaKnOb. He told me “Hey, I found that the domain spanagiot.gr is free. Why don’t you register it and set up your own server?”. In no time, I got the domain and a server running the latest Ubuntu (16.04 at this point). Here is what I learned in my short journey:

First three commands

Let’s say that your server has been up and running and it’s waiting for you to connect and deploy all these amazing services you have thought of. Usually, the infrastructure provider recommends you to specify a public key to use to login in your machine. After you copy and paste it in the website(you can find it here: $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) SSH to your machine (usually using: ssh root@SERVER-IP) Once you are in, you should really do this