So many people want a web site developed, but they don’t know their choices.
What technology is used can affect your bottom line.

Many people talk LINUX - It’s free you know. That’s got to be good!

LAMP technology means web hosting using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Linux is the operating system running on the web host.
Apache is the web server program that runs on the Linux server.
MySQL is a database service or program that runs on a Linux server.
PHP is the programming language that is used to develop Web Applications.

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ASP stands for “Active Server Pages” this is Microsofts Web application solution.
The O.S. on the server will be Windows
The web server program will be Internet Information Service (IIS)
The back end database will most likely be Microsoft SQL server, but there are ways to use MySQL.
The programming language can be C# with ASP.Net or Visual Basic dot net with ASP.Net

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If you are setting up your own hosting server, then you need to examine what this software will cost you,
but you can also rent space at a “web hosting company” and both Windows hosting and Linux hosting
will cost about the same per month. A web host saves you time and money, because they have already set up
their servers, with clean power, and many fast digital internet connections.

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