I think if you installed a base system and configured Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin that it'd do the rough task of installing the dependencies (if you installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivative like CentOS), though I paid someone at my host to tune my Apache server after I got everything setup. At least you'd be able to operate a community on it and not have to worry about a resource hog of a CPanel solution, plus Webmin is free and open source versus something like CPanel or DirectAdmin (I actually prefer Webmin/Virtualmin over any other control panel).
I take care of my 68 year old mother these days, and they've just diagnosed her with brain shrinkage related to Alzheimers, so I'm already on a road of learning things on this level, other than just volunteering at a senior facility like my son and I have done in the past.