Hello Sean,
you shall be forgiven 😊
I would like to buy myself a real good linux admin too, but neither my mother nor my University will pay for that.
And I still want to get a platform of mine up and running soon that I have been working on for quite some time. The "perfectionist" that I am I would like to know how to get the best configuration running. So I am writing a HowTo for everyone that might need it in the future. Of course this will only be possible with a lot of help by the community and I might not be the perfect nomination for this job, but that's life (last year I didn't even know how to spell HTML - but if everything crashes.... it crashes and I will be asking questions on the bboard as always.)