A LAMP or LEMP stack is an easy and affordable way to set up a web site. Be it WordPress or another PHP based site running on Nginx or Apache these two stacks are essential. If you, like me, don’t have that much experience with Linux you can find a lot of good stuff on digitalocean.com. They have tutorials on setting up almost everything you need when building one of the above stacks. Below is a couple of links to some of the most popular tutorials.
Once you have set up one of these stacks it should be very easy to move forward with your web project. If you don’t want the hassle of setting up one of these stack you can also just jump into one of the preconfigured servers – called one click apps. E.g. to get a WordPress site up and running just Digital Ocean has a preconfigured server set up with all that is needed. This way you can also set up LEMP and LAMP stacks if you don’t want to get your hands dirty with the tutorials.
Good luck on your new server set up and web site.