start playing with home servers

[michelewt]

hi there! i am Mike from Italy, first time here.

I am a Linux user and a LAMP developer.
I use to run LAMP over my pc to work in my localhost and upload.

Well, i'm not an Apache Guru but i'm quite good in installing modules, extensions, edit the configuration files, and so on.

I'd like to run my own home LAMP server that hosts my website.

Do you know a good book or a guide that can help me?

Do i need the maintainer to point my domain to my server's ip address?