Apexhosting??

Okay so I'm trying to set up a server on apex ...but I keep running into problems. I wanted to run direwolf20 but I'm pretty new to the whole server thing. I know I can't use bukkit plugins with it because direwolf runs off forge. Are there any mods that will let me do the usual server things like, anti-griefing and staking your plot and protecting the spawn area and all that good jazz or should I just run a craftbukkit server?