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To get started, we'll first take a look at some of the technical requirements for 
deploying a server with Ubuntu.
Technical requirements
To follow along with the examples in this book, you'll need an Ubuntu Server 
installation to work with. In general, the following specifications are the estimated 
minimums to successfully install Ubuntu Server:
•  64-bit CPU
•  1GB RAM
•  10GB hard disk (16GB or more is recommended)
64-bit CPU support is now a requirement, as Canonical no longer makes versions 
of Ubuntu available for 32-bit processors (with the only exception being older 
models of the Raspberry Pi). While this may seem like a surprising requirement, 
all computers sold today support 64-bit operating systems, and consumer CPUs 
have been 64-bit capable since at least 2003. Even if you have an older PC lying 
around that you don't think is capable of running a 64-bit operating system, 
you'd be surprised—even the later models of the Pentium IV (which is quite old) 
supports this, so this requirement shouldn't be hard to meet. Don't worry about the 
particulars of this right now, we'll go through the requirements in more detail later 
on in this chapter.
Now that we understand the technical requirements of Ubuntu Server, let's consider 
the role our server will play in our organization.