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Let’s install Campfire on your server.

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When you buy Campfire, you’re going to get this email

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with instructions of how to get up and running.

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There is a four-step guide that you need to walk through.

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We are going to start here with point one,

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which is picking the machine where we’re gonna run Campfire.

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I’m gonna pick Digital Ocean.

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It is a cloud provider

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and you can run that

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with up to 250 users

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on one of their basic 2GB/1CPU machines.

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And as you can see here, we have some guidance

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on the bigger machines you need

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if you have more users than that.

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But of course you don’t need to use the cloud to run this.

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You can run it on your own server, you can run it on a Pi,

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you can run it on your Mac,

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you can run it on a bunch of different things.

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As long as it has a Docker, you should be good to go.

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So let’s get set up with a Digital Ocean droplet

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where we can run this on.

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I’m gonna hop over here to my Digital Ocean interface,

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which is just a basic thing you get when you sign up.

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We’re gonna go over here and click Droplets.

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And then we’re gonna create a new droplet.

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When you create a new droplet,

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you get to pick where it is.

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I am on the west coast of the United States,

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so I’m gonna pick San Francisco.

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The data center doesn’t really matter.

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You can pick that if you want to.

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And regarding the operating system,

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it also really doesn’t matter.

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I’m just gonna go with the default here, Ubuntu 23.10.

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And now you get to pick your droplet size.

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I’m gonna go with a premium AMD.

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That’s a good CPU that you get relatively cheaply.

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Note here though, that the minimum requirement

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for Campfire is two gigabytes of RAM.

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So you can’t actually use this $7 a month thing,

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it only has one gigabyte of RAM.

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So we need this as our minimum instance size.

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And again, I said if you need a larger instance

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and you have more users, you can just go up

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and add more CPUs and more RAM.

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This also comes with 50 gigabytes of storage.

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You should have plenty of room to upload your files in.

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This is basically all we need.

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We don’t need to worry about any of the other setup here.

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So I’m gonna click create a droplet.

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and Digital Ocean is gonna set this droplet up.

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As soon as it’s set up, we’re gonna grab the IP address

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that this new server has

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and we are going to point the domain we have on it.

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That is going to be step number two here.

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Point DNS to the IP address of your machine.

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We’re gonna use my little demo domain here

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and as soon as this is set up,

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I can hop over here on CloudFlare,

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which is what I’m using to manage my domain.

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But it doesn’t really matter.

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Regardless of what you use to manage your domain,

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you can set up a sub-domain.

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An A record is what we’re gonna use for this.

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And you just need to point that A record

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to the IP address we get.

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I’m gonna call this chat,

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so I’m gonna get chat.exitsoftware.io.

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That’s where I’m gonna run it.

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And on CloudFlare, you have to remember

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to turn off this proxy.

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Once we’ll provision its own SSL certificate,

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but it can only do that if we’re pointing straight to it

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with DNS only.

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So we’re not gonna use the proxy for now.

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But Let’s see here.

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We’re gonna get this set up.

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We now have an IP address for our droplet. Let’s copy that.

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And then we hop over here into CloudFlare

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and we’re gonna put it in.

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And the TTL can be auto, that’s fine.

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That’s basically all we need to put in.

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So now we have chat.exitsoftware.io.

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That’s gonna be our domain.

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And we can hop into the console of our new computer here,

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our new server.

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It auto connects with SSH.

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If you’re using a different cloud provider,

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you might actually have to manually connect with SSH.

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It is just fine to do it either way.

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I like this setup.

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It’s really easy to use,

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especially since we’re not gonna do all that much.

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So we can just use this cloud console.

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That’s up and running.

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We’re gonna need now to connect the terminal to the machine.

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We’ve done that. Step number three.

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So now we are at the final step.

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Step number four, install Campfire with one command.

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So we’re gonna copy and paste this command.

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This command includes your private purchase token.

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Make sure you do not spread this.

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This is tied to your purchase, your account

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and it will be tied to the sub domain you set it up on.

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The license is such that if you need

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more than one installation on different sub domains,

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you’re gonna buy another license to run it there.

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We make that point down here.

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So let’s hop over, paste this in

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and now we’re gonna sit tight for a while.

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The once installation command

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is first gonna install, the once command.

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We’ve done that here and that asks us

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where do we want to host our domain.

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We’re gonna end their chat.exitsoftware.io.

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It needs to know this such that it can provision

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that SSL certificate.

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And now it’s gonna run the entire setup process.

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And the setup process includes installing Docker.

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As you saw, we did no pre-baking here on this machine.

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It was completely clean off the rack.

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A new Ubuntu set up.

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We have no other preparation we need to do

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than to paste in this one command.

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But that requires us to download and install Docker,

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which is the operating system, if you will,

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for these containers.

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And once Campfire is packaged as a container,

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this is how you get the software.

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You will be downloading essentially an entire little system

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inside one of these containers that runs on your server.

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So we’ve been prepared now, we’ve installed Docker

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and now we’re downloading the once Campfire image

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that’s going to run on this server

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and provide all the functionality.

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Now once this is done,

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we’re also still gonna have this once command.

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That is the interface by which you can reset password

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if you somehow forgot the password you’ve been set up with

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or you can make backups and restore backups.

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This is also where you can force upgrades to the system.

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By default, we will be upgrading your system

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every night at 2:00 AM local time for the machine.

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So if we have pushed out any new updates,

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you will automatically get them.

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There’s nothing you need to do

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unless you don’t want that for whatever reason,

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you can turn it off.

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This is especially important

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if you’re installing once Campfire on a close network.

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For example, if you’re air gapped,

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if you’re running inside of NORAD

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or some super secure facility

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or someplace that doesn’t even have internet,

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you can still run once Campfire.

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It is simply a local service that’ll run on that network.

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So now we’re starting up.

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This takes 15, 20 seconds in these tiny droplets.

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And this is the other thing, if you want a faster machine,

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more responsive, you can of course just pick something

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with more CPUs and power.

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Anyway, we are now set up with our domain.

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We can hop back here into our browser.

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And boom, we have simply set up Campfire on the machine

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and I can now type in my credentials, my setup.

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This is gonna be the first user.

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I can even pick a little avatar here for myself.

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And that is it.

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We are up and running.

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Now I can invite people to my account.

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I can copy this to my clipboard

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and send that out on an email or an instant message

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or drop it in perhaps into my previous Slack

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or other chat system account.

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Or if I am in a public venue and I wanna get everyone on,

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I can just pop this open.

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People can take a screenshot of the QR code

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and boom, they’re gonna be into the system.

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I’m not gonna go through the entire system here.

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Jason has done a wonderful walkthrough of that.

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I just wanted to show you how you set this up.

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And this is essentially all it takes.

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Now it is fair to note here

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that you’re still running your own machine.

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You are still responsible for that machine being online.

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You’re responsible for configuring backups

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if you want to have that.

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You’re responsible for for everything that goes into that.

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So if you’re not super technical,

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it might not be a bad idea to ally yourself

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with someone who knows a thing or two about servers,

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but you can absolutely get going

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with as little as what I’ve shown you.

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That’s it. This is installing Campfire.