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start growing, though, you might find your website slowing down. Oddly enough, this fact means that it's often better to find a host that offers price plans with limits instead of one that offers 'unlimited' disk space and bandwidth to each customer – your website will be much faster at the 'limited' host. More Than You'd Think. One thing that people don't often think about is that there's more than one web server program out there. It's not really visible to visitors, since they all do basically the same thing, but there are lots of servers available, and they're all quite different in the way they work. There are three main groups: Apache. The open source Apache software is the most popular server software out there, with around 70% of the market share. Microsoft servers. Microsoft are responsible for the various versions of IIS (Internet Information Server) and PWS (Personal Web Server), which altogether have around 20% of the market. Sun servers. Sun produce lots of servers, most notably the Netscape-branded ones. The market share of these servers depends on whether you count all sites (making it 3%) or just the actively maintained ones (in which case it drops to less than 1%). Source for statistics: netcraft.com. Other servers available are mostly 'simple' servers that don't have all the somewhat unnecessary features of these servers, such as thttpd (the 't' is for tiny or turbo). There are literally hundreds of them, but they have mostly negligible market share. LAMP: The Most Popular Server System Ever. You may have heard of a server system called LAMP, and wondered what it is. Well, the answer is that LAMP isn't any one thing on its own – it's actually a combination of four technologies. Together, the LAMP technologies form the most popular overall server system on the web today. Which technologies are they? The answer lies in the name. LAMP stands for The Web Design Guide for Newbies |58
Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP. The term originated as a marketing word to help point out that open source (free) software, when combined, could be just as effective as expensive 'enterprise solutions' like J2EE (Java) or Microsoft's .NET. To understand the system, let's take a look at the components individually. Linux. Linux is widely considered to be the open source operating system of choice, and the main alternative to Microsoft Windows. Thousands of volunteers from all over the world work on Linux and create programs for it. At its heart, the system is more-or-less a Unix derivative, which means that it's very stable and fast. While widespread adoption of Linux for the desktop seems far off, mainly because of the difficulty of getting people to switch, it isn't stopping Linux from doing very well on web servers. Apache. Apache is the world's most popular web server bar none. It was based on the second-ever web server, which was developed at the NCSA, and its history goes back as far as 1995. For all intents and purposes, Apache has become the industry standard server: it would be silly to say that Apache isn't suitable for business use, considering that it is included in enterprise packages like Oracle and IBM's WebSphere. Apache is developed by the non-profit Apache Foundation. MySQL. MySQL is a relational database, popular because of its relative simplicity and the fact that it's free. It is considered to be much easier to set up and use than more 'traditional' database software, and MySQL databases can be managed using a range of graphical software. MySQL is controversial among database professionals, however, as its developers haven't included many complicated advanced features, feeling that they would make the software too difficult to use without making it any more useful. MySQL is developed by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, and its website is www.mysql.com. Perl and PHP. Perl and PHP are both scripting languages, and they are both often used as The Web Design Guide for Newbies |59
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ABOUT WEB DESIGNER PAD Web Designer
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Chapter 1: Why You Need a Website?
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Chapter 2: How the Web Works. Many
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color is a big subject. As soon as
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Smart Tags. Do you think it ends th
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The Reader Often Crashes. As a fina
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