Komodo

I used www.r0m.net to get a shared hosting account. and I used (website disappeared off the face of the internet) SatellitePC for domain name... 8.95 a year.

Cerulean

It's one of the "I-rinse-memory-for-no-good-reason" distros, along with SuSE and Mandriva. If you're comfortable with kernel compilation, Lilo or GRUB, and all of the basic config files, and you're feeling like spending 3 days to install and a few months to fine-tune your system, then go Gentoo - the speed advantages and performance boosts over other distros are tremendous. You also gain an emotion attatchment to your computer :-)
If you're not feeling like the above, i'd recommend Ubuntu (just make sure you install KDE via the kubuntu meta-package straight away ;-)). All the convenience, less of the bloat, excellent documentation.

Back on topic, I wouldn't recommend Apache for a new user - lack of a graphical interface scares the hell out of most new people. Try abyssws - simple install, support for CGI, PHP, MySQL, and so on. Visit http://www.aprelium.com and download the webserver. Follow the simple instructions.

Ooble

Fedora doesn't rinse memory - that title belongs to Mandriva and no other. FC and SuSE are just "liberal" with it.

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I favor Fedora Core 3 over most, and will be going to Fedore Core 4 soon. I also use Gentoo (which is very nice) and Ubuntu (which is a very easy "vanilla" distro).

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Truly-Canadian

in order to get the best answers, what type of comp are you going to be using for the server, what connection do you have, and what do you want to do with it.