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by SunghoYahng 916 days ago
How did you acquire so much knowledge in such a short time? Can you share your process with me?
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It says (on his website) that he started coding at the age of 7, so I guess he's had at least 9 years of mixed IT experience.

But learning the basics of setting up a server isn't that hard. One of my first jobs involved a lot of similar work, and I had never touched a server in my life - purely a coder prior to that. Literally my first task was to go down to the server room, install a new server, and install Ubuntu server on it, and set up the server. Took me a week to get that done.

Never underestimate the value of motivated experimentation.

1) Set a goal (e.g. host a Minecraft server for your friends)

2) Spend all your free time trying to achieve it

3) Go to 1)