Origanally I had wanted a place to put the game I had made, but after getting into it the project evolved into a full portfolio website. The idea of hosting a server on my own hardware was very appealing to me. After playing around with Apache on my laptop I was sold. I decided on the LAMP framework since it fit my needs for this website, and the use of those technologies in general.
The resuts of this project is this website! As well as my learning of the LAMP framework.