1 Introduction
One or more remote servers can quickly become an useful resource to any research team. Depending on the server, they offer computational resources bigger than those available in our local computers. They come in handy to host tools and applications, reachable for the whole team, and they can also host documentation, databases, web pages for projects or groups…
For example, at the EMF we have several servers, hosting the EMF web, the Forestry Lab, a notification server for automatized alerts, a documentation web, a file server, an internal resources database…
But, with great power comes great responsability. Remote servers must be maintained, users must be added and removed, applications must be installed, updated or removed and web servers must be served…
The next chapters will guide you step by step to use and maintain you remote linux server.