Beginners Questions • Re: How to shop for and setting up 24/7 server?

Many thanks

Top is quite clear, the only common confusion is free memory vs buffers/cache. The latter is "almost free" in the sense that it's used to speed up disk access, but will be made available to applications if needed.

We are confused on RAM usage under VIRT, RES and SHR. Open Firefox and doing nothing else on a 8 GB Ubuntu with desktop system. The VIRT part is hugh 3.3GB. The RES 0.48GB and SHR 0.23GB. Used RAM was 2.8GB as reported by top

Is this sound right for safe and comfortable RAM size? (a) swap is not used gh RAM (b) used RAM is kind of 50% to 75% of total RAM

A properly configured system on high-quality hardware shouldn't "hangup" ever, and reboots are generally only needed for kernel updates.

Excellent information, many thanks

We only hear it by name, how cloud version of Debian work? It is more reliable than local server which is on limited budget and cannot be staffed 24/7? How is this plan look?

(a) run local server at development and initial test deployment stage

(b) move the Debian and 'own developed software' from local server to cloud provider.
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There are no CLI or GUI "versions"

Watched some videos on the topic. Is below correct? The 'red and grey' configuration screen put [x] mark on a few GUI or none. If not [x], the GUI software is still on disk but not executed.

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