# One Server Setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 5, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-server-setup/62299 "2016-10-05T17:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PrashantR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashantr/32/12314_2.png) [@PrashantR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrashantR)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-server-setup/62299/1 "2016-10-05T17:09:29Z")
Hello All, I am setting up a single node server. Would you please advise if there is any good practice for this kind of setup. Thanks in advance, Prashant ---
**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-server-setup/62299/2 "2016-10-05T17:23:28Z")
I can only think of one thing that's specific to single-node clusters, and that's that you'll want to set the default number of replicas to zero since replicas require at least two nodes in the cluster. Of course, the replica count for indexes can be altered at any time. ---
**Author:** ![PrashantR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashantr/32/12314_2.png) [@PrashantR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PrashantR)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-server-setup/62299/3 "2016-10-05T17:28:31Z")
Noted. Thanks Magnus. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-server-setup/62299/4 "2017-07-05T22:14:39Z")
Closed on July 5, 2017, 10:14pm UTC