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Installation
Although ARDI was designed the the capability to run on Windows where required, it is much easier to maintain when run in Linux.
As such, we suggest Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as our platform of choice. It's free, popular, extremely stable and supported by major VPS cloud hosting providers such as Amazon AWS and Digital Ocean.
We provide installer scripts to make installation of ARDI on a new Linux system extremely straight-forward. In fact, it only takes two commands to get your basic ARDI server up and running.
An example of the full process of installing ARDI on a cloud-based server (which is almost identical to an on-premises server, apart from the need to install Ubuntu) is in the video below…
Ubuntu is based on the Debian operating system, which is also used as the operating system for many small hardware devices, such as the Raspberry PI, BeagleBone Black and PCDuino, which are low-cost hardware options for ARDI.