“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts” Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft We live in the era of machine learning. Scientists and researchers from around the world are using it to improve our lives in ways we never imagined and advertisers to reach the most relevant people to sell their products. It’s not a recent idea but it scaled so much lately due to great breakthroughs in computer hardware.

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.