1. A Quick Overview

In this tutorial, we are aiming to accomplish several things:

    * We’re going to install the Ubuntu Server operating system. I commonly use Ubuntu because of its ease of use and
      simple administration. It also has a rather large and extremely active community behind it, which makes getting
      support a breeze.
    * We’re going to install an OpenSSH server. This allows you to administer your server from remote computers.
    * A LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack is going to be installed. This provides the backbone that will run
      your web site. Apache is the industry standard web server on Unix-based operating systems; it’s what most web hosts
      use (NETTUTS is using it right now!) and it’s what we’re going to use.
    * We’re going to install a firewall to protect your server from unauthorized access.

In order to follow this tutorial, you’re going to need a few items:

    * A computer to use as your server. It doesn’t need to be powerful; as long as it’s not ancient, it’ll work fine. Please
      don’t do this on your desktop PC; Ubuntu will completely wipe your computer.
    * A CD burner and a blank CD. These are so that you can burn Ubuntu to a disk in order to install it.
 &nbs