I am thinking about switching over my web hosting to a local server. I currently use network solution(which is not the best). The main reason why I want to make a local web server is because I am working on a few different projects and need to be able to work on everything quickly without hassle. I am mainly a unix user and I am not a huge fan of windows. I was wondering if you had any suggestions on what distro to use. Anything else that you think I need to know let me know.
No hate coming from my point of view. I'd used Ubuntu Server and it's quite good. If you prefer a true Debian experience, then you can use Debian and choose the various daemons that you wish to install. If you are putting Linux on a lower-end system, I would recommend Lighttpd over Apache as it's lighter on resources.
I personally use NGINX along with PHP-FPM. You'll find that most people have their own favorite flavor, to me it's whatever you're most comfortable using and playing around with!