Acquired Google domain name, Configured Linode, installed apache, installed postgres, postgres php plugins, wrote web pages, and installed WordPress last week. I was a little rusty using Linux and writing web pages and I have never used Apache, Linode, or WordPress. I am pretty happy with Linode and Apache. I ran into a few issues with the Linode install, but was able to Google my way out of them. I used postgeSQL with WordPress instead of the default MySQL. I think that made things a little more difficult, but I like postgres, so it was worth it.