Hello everyone i was messing around on google and i came across this site and figured i would come and check it out b/c i use to play UO OSI server back in the 90's and figure this would be a nice place to start learning how to be able to make my own little server for me and my friends to play on

Welcome. You can build a shard fairly easily from the Distro. Edwards has kindly donated his server scripts for a starting shard. I think it's got features that OSI didn't have years ago : )

Have fun and feel free to ask questions if you have any problems.