Has anyone set up a server?

Trying to find out if anyone has set up a server yet?
What kind of hardware and software did you use?
Did you make a dedicated or listening server?
Any issues you ran into?
Did you do it in C++ or blue prints?

I’m trying to se up my first server ever and I’m pretty lost.

Thanks in advance!

The way I figured it it was build a GitHub version of the engine.
Build the game for dedicated server.
Use Amazon web service or AWS to get a server.
I used dropbox to download it to the server.
Ran the game and connected to the server that way.

Lots of other details are left out but thats the overall way that I got it to work.