Lamp, Lamr….what? – Your Options are as Wide as the Linux Web Hosting Service Itself

linux129 Lamp, Lamr….what?   Your Options are as Wide as the Linux Web Hosting Service Itself
Smita Mathur asked:


So, what’s your need LAMP, LAMR or any other variety of Linux web hosting services?

Need explanation? Right then. Here we go.

They are the solution stacks that enable any Linux web hosting service to effectively fructify an effective combination of computer software with database and server.

LAMP, the most popular of the lot, comes with following specifications:

L: Linux

A: Apache

M: MySQL

P: PHP/Perl/Python

While LAMR expands to,

L: Linux

A: Apache

M: MySQL

R: Ruby on Rails

For other variants, the meaning of essentialities gets accommodated with certain alterations like ‘M’ instead of MySQL means Mod Perl or Mod Python. ‘P’ instead of PHP/Perl/Pyhton designates PostgreSQL (another form of data base language).

Bur then whether LAMP, LAMR or any other varieties, Linux web hosting services constitute meaning for millions world-wide in more ways than just by their names. The credentials lie in the effectiveness of OpenSource programming architecture.

The OpenSource architecture offers a secure and stable solution for hosting a website across the span of internet and the ever-so-dreadful threats of spams, viruses, and malwares. Thanks to the stringent coding regime and regular reviews conducted by the peers world-wide. For every programming loophole (if there is any what so ever) there lies a surety of immediate cure. The entire condition directs towards one statement: Linux web hosting is safe. And several web hosting service providers world-wide are taking credits for superior hosting services by successfully implementing LAMP/LAMR or other OpenSource Linux-based frame work to their clients in ned of business or personal web hosting solution.

Netcraft (the prominent British Internet monitoring company) says eight of the ten most reliable web hosting companies in the world run Linux on their web servers. However, it is up to you to believe in the credentials or discard them.

Burgeoning population of Linux web hosting service providers do have certain points to prove on the positives of this robust web hosting service variety of course.



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