Installing your own WordPress server is extremely easy but there seems to be a lot of articles that needlessly complicate it.
Starting with a base install of Ubuntu Server (Amazon AWS is a good free choice for this), SSH into your server and run the commands below:
Change to Root
$ sudo -i
If Your LAMP Server is Not Installed
# apt-get install lamp-server^
Set Up Database
# mysqladmin -p create wordpress
Installing WordPress
# cd /var/www/html # mkdir old # mv index.html old # wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz # tar xvzf latest.tar.gz # mv wordpress/* . # chown -R www-data:root . # rm -rf wordpress # rm -rf latest.tar.gz
Finishing Up
Point your browser to the address of your server and follow the onscreen prompts to finish up the WordPress installation.