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Old 13-07-2007, 21:27
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Default New to web hosting!

For some reason Ive always wanted my own home web server, over the last year or so Ive made several fleeting attempts at it and always failed miserably! I think it is fair to say that web hosting is not a simple subject to tackle, I would say my knowledge of it ranges to intermediate in some areas and complete novice in others.

Anyway, I recently took the plunge and installed the latest version of Ubuntu Desktop in a dualboot with Windows, this is my first ever experience of using linux and I was actually surprised at how easy it was to get Ubuntu working. Anyways I think the first thing I did was open firefox and search for how to install lamp on Ubuntu Desktop, a day later and I have what appears to be a fully operational web server based on LAMP, running a Wordpress blog!

Now surely it cant just be this easy I think to myself! Common sense however tells me it cant be, after all I have a lot to learn. I realise that running a web server on a platform like Ubuntu Desktop is not ideal in any way, but so far its given me a way to crowbar myself away from Windows and get my head around Linux.

I was pondering about where the best place would be to start on my quest for knowledge of all things LAMP, I instantly thought of you lot here in the eukhost forums. Can anyone offer any advice for where I should go from here?

Many thnks
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