I built a new real estate website: Sacramento Real Estate Agent
I'm currently hosting it at Godaddy and am thinking of moving the site over to my own personal server. I have some experience with Linux but was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for hosting your own WordPress website. I'd like to run WordPress multi-site and plan to use some sort of Linux distribution with Cpanel.

Thanks,

Carlos

I started with Linux so as to self-host my personal website, including a WordPress blog, with Slackware. (Choosing Slackware was very much an accident.) It's just a little tiny personal site, but it was rock solid for the five years I self-hosted (now it's on a hosting service).

Any Linux should be able to do what you are looking to do. I would recommend a distro that is stable, not bleeding edge, and does not do version upgrades on some kind of crazily short schedule, such as Slackware, Debian, Mageia, and CentOS. Ubuntu LTS might be another candidate (note that the primary difference between Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server is that Ubuntu servers does not have a GUI by default.

I would recommend against distros whose sole reason for existence seems to be to implement a particular desktop environment or to accentuate the eye candy.

Just my two cents.

WHM/cPanel licensing is expensive. Have a budget for it?
You could self-host on a toaster with wifi these days.

I'd just leave it at Godaddy.
"Some experience with Linux" is not a sufficient, IMO.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Just my two cents.

It occurred to me overnight that, if you are doing this primarily for learning purposes, you could set up a clone of your website on localhost to use for testing purposes (trying new themes and features and the like before bringing them live). You would get the learning without having the headaches of maintaining a publicly-available site. (That's something that's easily done with XAMPP; I don't have such a clone right now because I've trying to learn how to do it the old-fashioned way.)

If you are looking to save money by doing this, be sure to check your ISP's terms of service to make sure your account is at a level at which they allow public-facing servers. Most US ISPs ban public-facing servers from home accounts (they are concerned not only about revenue, but also quite legitimately about spam, honeypots, and other such bad things); some enforce such bans much more aggressively than others.