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This tutorial shows the installation of a Ubuntu 17.10 minimal server in detail with many screenshots. The purpose of the guide is to show the basic installation of Ubuntu 17.10 that can be used as basis for our other Ubuntu tutorials here at howtoforge like our perfect server guides.
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I have an other question: WHY to install a non-LTS based Ubuntu server?
This question is answered in the first part of the tutorial already. Users that need latest software versions will install non-LTS versions. You might need this e.g. when you want to use a software that needs latest versions as dependencies or when you develop software and want to make your software compatible with latest software versions etc.
You could be right, but...
If I were a developer, then I'd like to install latest software into an lxc/docker(?) container instead of installing a full OS, which could be really instable... (IMHO)
This setup is for virtual machines as well and not just full servers. I'm a developer and I use the exact setup from above (and it's predecessors that I wrote in the past years) daily for development and software testing in a VMware VM, others might use VirtualBox, KVM or whatever, the above setup applies to all of them. For some cases one might use Docker as well, but depending on the software that you write, the software might behave differently inside a docker container than on a real system, so using a virtualization system that is able to fully virtualize a server is often a better choice. Using a non-LTS version might not be the right thing for you, but many others need it and that's why we publish a tutorial on that topic. Besides that, you can find a link to the LTS version of this guide in the first chapter.
If i want to use this setup and will be hosting more than one website on my server what should i use as the hostname for this system and what domain should i use. Do i use the domain of one of the websites i plan to host on this system or do i just make one up. i have myfirstwebsite.com and mysecondwebsite.ca for the hostname can i use serv1 and domian as webserver.com or do i have to use myfirstwebsite.com
Use a subdomain of one of your sites or any other domain you own. e.g. srv1.yourdomain.tld. The only thing that matters is that the subdomain that you use as hostname exists in DNS and points to this server.