A guide to setting up and running your own webserver?

[Cheetah Designs]

I have a friend that is looking to setup his own web server on a VPS so he can host a couple of sites.

Is there a decent guide that will walk him through not only setup but maintenance aswell? Things like what to do when it goes down, how to read logs, etc...?

 

[Jonnybmac]

your provider should provide you with most of the info?