Linux web hosting plan is most suited for all type websites. It is one of the most popular hosting platforms for cost-effective and reliable solution. Linux is an open source operating system which does not require any license fee. Many web hosting companies offer affordable and cheap Linux hosting service.

The basic software setup for any Linux web hosting service is called as LAMP. The Lamp is a typical software bundle that includes Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python. The combination of these open source technologies are used to define a web server infrastructure for web hosting.  In this blog, we shall now review these technologies in detail.

Apache: It is a typical web server that delivers web pages to your computer and web browsers. When you are surfing the internet using your web browsers such as internet explorer, firefox or chrome, the browsers sends the request through this Apache web servers. It is the most popular web server that is available today that supports Linux, windows and other operating systems available in the market.

My SQL: is the open source data base management software that runs on Linux based web servers. It stores all the data for a dynamic webpage so that it can be retrieved when any request is raised from the user end. When compared to other databases such as Oracle and MSSQL, My SQL is preferred choice for the developers because it is an open source software product and low cost.

PHP: stands for the PHP Hypertext preprocessor. It is a simple scripting language that can be used to create websites. The main advantage of PHP is it can be inserted to your HTML web pages directly. The most common use of PHP is to perform the database query and place the data in HTML pages. In this blog, we have discussed some technical details about the LAMP – a software web infrastructure.