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How do I learn how to manage servers n shit?
| GNU/Linux. With a $5/month VPS you can do damn near anything (depending on traffic ofcourse). Get to know the terminal.
| Cybrary has some free stuff you can learn from. But you can pay $100 monthly and it's got some actual courses and interactive learning simulators
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| *) Get yourself familiar with a console text editor. For beginners, nano or pico are a good choice. Open various files with it, get used to reading stuff with it. Then see to edit some file with it: add some text, delete some text, copy something from somewhere and paste it elsewhere, etc. Save your opened files, either overwriting or elsewhere or under a different name. All these will be indispensable.
*) Use said editor to open and look at various files under /etc
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| Why is it always Linux?
| I didnt check, but probably a minecraft server runs on linux. It is the defacfo ubiquitous system that runs most of the www and the internet when it comes to publicly exposed services. There is also a lot of *bsd out there which still is in the same *nix family, though many would argue linux is not part of that group and I could even agree to their reasoning.
Anything else would be playing with some mockery of an internet system, which you dont control, cant debug, cant fine tune.
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Because windows servers lack of standard conformity, package management and a comfortable command line. Plus it is super overloaded with stuff you probably don't need but won't get rid. It's also known for beeing less secure, since it is closed source. Admins don't know about builtin or accidentally backdoors. They have to trust in one company, doing everything well. Also there is a lock-in effect. It's not easy to migrate between linux distros, but impossible on windows.
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| There's a brat that made mine craft servers and is building clouds and shit in his free time. How do I get that knowledge where to start where to head towards to?