This is me

• A VIA Epia-ML Mini-ITX board
• A 2GB Transcend IDE SDD
• With 256MB memory
• Housed in a APlus Cupid 1 HTPC casing
• Running on Ubuntu Server 9.04

System status: see right column

OS Setup

Having experience with a Debian based system, Ubuntu was found to be more robust with the installation than Debian itself, altough only Ubuntu 9.10 Server could be brought running via an USB memory stick install without any problems (6.06, 8.04, and 10.04 did not). Downloaded the .iso image here, and used Ubuntu "Startup Disk Creator" in System > Administration.
Lm-sensors works as well, which is useful to check CPU temperature since there's no fans. It also registers case temperature.

Server Setup

Installed OpenSSH for maintenance using DSA Keys to login to it and using the shell. Some issues with unclear manuals, but it basically comes down to creating a DSA key pair (meaning public and private) on the client on the ~/.ssh directory, and copying the public key to the user ~/.ssh user directory in a file specified in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the host (something like authorized_keys). In this case the host is me, and the client the computer logging in with.
Apache2 was installed and running without a fuzz to host the web server showing this page. Also running to keep my URL linked to my dynamic IP address is ddclient, with the settings supplied by DynDNS.com.