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***The technical environment***
Choosing the right initial environment is a fundamental part of managing a public or community server. Obviously, you won't normally try to host large numbers of users on a shared hosting scheme - you will almost always choose a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with an upgradable plan (or even a dedicated server, if you expect extremely heavy use). But there are other considerations, too.
Choosing the right initial environment is a fundamental part of managing a public or community server. Obviously, you won't normally try to host large numbers of users on a shared hosting scheme - you will almost always choose a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with an upgradable plan (or even a dedicated server if you expect extremely heavy use). But there are other considerations, too.
One pertains to the operating system. Our advice is to use Debian unless you are intimate with another Linux OS. The reason for this is simple: Debian is the most popular operating system among the people who usually offer support in the public Friendica groups. When you have problems later - and even the most experienced among us run into riddles from time to time - you'll find it much harder to get support and spend more time on search engines if you're using a different distro. This isn't (just) evangelism, we've already had users on CentOS and Fedora who had to wait _hours_ to find support because nobody else is familiar with the particular quirks of their systems. If you really know your way around, and you know where all your configuration and log files are without help, feel free to use something else, but unless you're intimate with your OS of choice, stick with Debian.