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For cost consideration, we may be interested in hosting our websites on a Linux infrastructure. With cloud possibilities, we can consider hosting a Linux VM with ASP.NET Core capabilities.

For this recipe, we will use Ubuntu 17.10, but you can use a different Linux distribution such as Debian, CentOS, Fedora or any Linux distribution that supports a Docker Engine.

Before .NET Core, there was the Mono Framework (http://www.mono-project.com/) to run a .NET application on Linux. Mono is an open source and a cross-platform port of the .NET Framework, which contains an Apache module to host ASP.NET applications.

For now, .NET applications always need Mono to run on Linux or OS X, because not all the BCL (The .NET Framework base class ...

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