Hosting Your Own Site

The Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP framework is the most common way to set up a new website or web application. Each of these parts is open-source and built for speed and efficiency. We use LAMP for most of our web projects because of it’s universality, ease-of-installation, and stability. If you’re wondering why this matters to you, you might want to read below. If not, you can skip this part all together:

The parts of a LAMP web server

• Your server runs on Linux, the traditional server operating system. Most versions of Linux are free and can be customized to your needs.
• Apache is the most widely used web server software component. Apache allows your website to be seen on the web.
• MySQL provides your website with a database. Nearly all dynamic websites have databases that store data and organize it for easy accessability.
• In order to take information from Apache and MySQL you need a ‘server-side’ scripting language. PHP provides a way to take information and display it on your website. In combination with HTML it will allow you to show a constantly changing list of inventory, a news feed of your latest press releases, or a schedule of upcoming events.

If you’re thinking of hosting your own site, instead of outsourcing it, we can help you set up a customized LAMP system. Or, if you’re just wondering why the heck you’d ever need to know about this, feel free to give us a call or email and we can discuss it.