Chapter 10
Web Hosting: Apache, PHP, and MySQL
The Web has become central to modern life. A key factor for this great success is the low cost of putting information on the Web. You simply find a Web hosting service to upload files for your website. Any Internet host can provide Web hosting if it has a good Internet connection and runs a Web server and other related programs. According to netcraft.com’s March 2012 survey, among all Web servers, a full 65.24% are Apache™. Microsoft’s server is a distant second with 13.81%.
A majority of Apache servers run on Linux systems. A Linux-Apache Web hosting environment usually also supports PHP and MySQL. The Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP combination (known as LAMP) works well to support Web hosting. ...
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