Updated gudie using compiled binaries?

[chaosflame]

So I've been scowering the website for a simple guide on how to set up a private server using the pre-compiled binaries (I've had bad experiences with compiling before and I just want to avoid it for now). To my surprise, even with all the extremely intelligent people in this community, no one seems to have written a clear, straightforward, and updated guide of how to set up a barebones private server.

I don't have a computer science degree, so struggling to read through all 62 muddled and outdated guides, can someone maybe shed some light on me and help me find an easier way to get my server up and running. Ive downloaded all of the necessary files, installed mysql/perl/etc, but where to go from here seems a bit wishywashy to me.

No offense to anyone who wrote the guides that are out there now. I'm sure I'm going to get flamed about being a noob for posting this, but I figured it was worth a shot.