Linux web hosting and Apache web server
Linux Host September 26th, 2009
Linux based servers are normally built on LAMP architecture. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. It is an inexpensive and effective server architecture that is known for its reliability and excellent performance. Linux based server is the most popular and cheap hosting solution that is available today for webmasters.
In this blog we shall see some of the features of Apache servers in LAMP architecture. The important aspect of the LAMP software bundle is all the softwares in this combination are free to download and have no license fee. Apache is a powerful http compliant web server. It is highly flexible and extensible with any third party modules.
Apache is a feature rich web server and updates itself regularly for modern server requirements. It provides full source code to the developers with unrestricted license to operate. It can be easily customized to specific user requirements with Apache API patches. It supports different operating system environment such as Windows NT, Linux and UNIX platforms. Apache allows you to easily set up password protected pages with enormous number of authorized users. You can set some customized response to errors and problems. There is no fixed limit in the number of redirects and Aliases in Apache server. You can have powerful rewriting engines and solve most of the URL manipulation problems. Apache supports multi-hosted servers. It can distinguish the request made to different IP addresses that are mapped to the same server, helping you to set up a virtual hosting platform for websites.
Apache is a powerful and reliable web server used for both static and dynamic websites. You can configure apache for a simple HTML web hosting to a complex enterprise web hosting.
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