Host

The host is the base for the home server. While it can be both a VPS or a physical machine, it is ideally a Linux machine and we need full shell access for setting up the server.

Certainly nothing speaks against Debian as a choice of operating system; personally I favor Fedora. The more detailed setup steps outlined later should be equally applicable to both or even other distributions.

Having a freshly installed host system up and running, we can proceed with setting it up to our needs in Setting up host.

Also included in the guide is handling Maintenance tasks such as regular backups to ensure smooth operation over longer periods.