Decided to do something with an old small form factor Dell I had lying around. Has a 120GB SSD, some sort of intel i5, and 8 GB of RAM.
I started by installing Ubuntu Server 20 LTS. Simple. Using apt-get to install apache2, mysql, and a few modules for both was a little more challenging, but still pretty easy.
Bought a domain name off of NameCheap for like 9 bucks a year. And here we are. Not sure if I’ll ever bother posting again. Just seemed like a fun way to spend some time. Next I’m thinking about adding postfix and hosting my own email server. That will be much more challenging.