Getting ready

Fire up your favorite spreadsheet program; we'll be using it to keep track of all the parts that go into the server, and any capacity concerns. If you don't have one, Open Office and Libre Office are good free alternatives for building these spreadsheets. Subsequent sections will help determine most of the row contents.

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