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# Server Requirements

## Operating System

We require using Ubuntu >=20.04 as the base operating system for your server.

## Root access

Full `root` access to this server is required. This might be via `sudo`
(recommended) or by direct access to `root` (not recommended!)

## External IP

An external IP allows users on the internet to reach your JupyterHub. Most
VPS / Cloud providers give you a public IP address along with your server. If
you are hosting on a physical machine somewhere, talk to your system administrators
about how to get HTTP traffic from the world into your server.

## CPU / Memory / Disk Space

See how to [](/howto/admin/resource-estimation)