Communication is expanding rapidly in this day and age. We have texting, e-mail, Slack, Discord, Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Messenger, LINE, and the list goes on. Geeks (and, by association, the FOSS community) tend to embrace counterculture, which is why they thoroughly adopt IRC.

Last time I tried something like this, I was inspired by Lee Hutchinson’s web server guide and mail server guide. Therefore, I set out setting up a web and mail server on a home PC to learn more about Internet services, as he suggested.