Reply To: Seafaring Fibbage
The setup for the Twittarrr server is a Linux guest running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 host. If the setup is the same as we got last time, we will have static addresses for both the host and server as well as entry into the ship’s DNS. If, and it’s a huge if, they could get us a custom build that could be pointed at our hostname, I’d be happy to set you up on our box. The laptop is a quad core with 24GB of RAM, and we never even came close to taxing it last year.
That being said, having a separate laptop connected with a physical cable might be wise for infrastructure purposes. If you were planning to run this in the game room, the wifi was virtually always crushed down there.
If you were planning to set it up elsewhere, running it on the Twittarrr server would save you a fair amount of infrastructure getting your network running. Whether or not that is offset by the amount of configuration needed to get it to run is another story. 🙂