And as far as specific guides go, each of you should go ahead and go through the following "course" on landchad.net. The colors are kind of horrible but the information is good. I'll post some videos about getting started with Linux after this, if you aren't familiar with it. Linux is critical to doing anything with servers, and comes with far less (if any) system spyware as a bonus.

Note: Do not disable the entire firewall, ever. I don't know why he even suggests doing that.