Is it easy to set up a home server?

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You can set up a home server for testing purposes in your computer and it is really easy to do, matter to unpack the distro package and run the installation program.

However a home server of this characteristics is not an Ubuntu servers and must not be used as production server, this is, making it live for Internet surfers because a computer cannot do efficiently this job.

Probably the most known and used home server softwares is XAMPP from Apache Friends, which can run over Windows, Linux, Mac and Solaris, but there are other computer-based servers that you can find listed in HotScripts, just use the search function.

For XAMPP, this is the link, www.apachefriends.org