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# Introduction

This guide assumes you followed my Arch Server guide therefore it will expect you already have basic knowledge about the programs we are using, have fail2ban configured and you have a storage cluster mounted to /data.

If you did not follow my complete Arch Server guide you should do a few things 
1. set up fail2ban
make sure fail2ban talks to your firewall properly and test that people actually get banned
2. adjust the storage locations
Either mount your storage cluster/disk to /data or adjust the storage location in every docker compose file in the guide.
3. basic knowledge about linux, docker, fail2ban and networking
You should not execute commands or insert configuration you don't understand, so be sure to read up.

The guide should be pretty straightforward, And all the guides are optional, so only install what you will actually use. Most services will require a reverse proxy and a database so that's why we start with them, But you should again only install them if you need them.

Take your time and if you run into any problems be sure to leave a comment :)