Its not actually as hard as it seems. Took me about 2 days to set up my first time. If you go to the DNS website you can get a free subdomain that links to your homeserver.

I used WAMP myself, but I hear Apache is better.

WAMP & UniServer have Apache in them as well as MySQL with phpmyadmin and such.

They are standalone server packages. Very useful for localhost development.

WAMP has apache though wat o_o

and two days? It's like a 2 minute install XD are we talking about the same program?:Q:

Or maybe you're talking about forwarding your ports?