Multiple Domains, Multiple Sites, One Droplet

Hi

To start, I’m sure this answer is somewhere in the support section of this site but I’ve tried a few ways, destroyed a droplet and have about 50 tabs open. I’ve never created my own VPS.

I currently host 6 different domains running 4 different wordpress sites and 2 html sites on a server (godaddy)

• would like to try and avoid purchasing cPanel for this
• would consider perhaps using ISPconfig…

I tried using Ubuntu 14, installed LAMP, etc. but started running into errors and got frustrated.

I’ve never used nginx before and have somewhat limited apache/mysql use and the more I’m seeing, it seems like nginx may be better for what I’m trying to do.

I plan on hosting more wordpress sites and more domains as time goes on, too. A handful of the domains also have email hosting set up through Google.

What is the best, and easiest, setup to accomplish this?