Sites With Linux Flavours

Choosing between a Windows based or Linux based website is very difficult for a person who is not familiar with both these operating systems. The platform on which one is on makes a huge difference of cost, security, ease of use, scalability, design, etc. Hence it is very important that you do proper research before you get your company’s website made. Even after you make your choice between a Linux and Windows, there are other choices you need to make.

Just the choices of languages in Linux itself is staggering. There are plain languages, then there are languages which are made by using these languages. They do have their own advantages and disadvantages. If you have no idea about what is being talked about here, then you need to consult a professional before you make a choice of the language. There are some languages where understanding is simple and helps you work easier. There are some languages where you can easily expand your website and scale to bigger levels. Some Linux languages give you better control over your website. Some languages give the designer simpler tools to work with like the Ruby On Rails language which is quite simple for designers to create complicated algorithms easily. Then there are basic and simple languages like PHP which are very popular and have a variety of advantages over other languages. Python is another popular competitor to these Linux web developing languages which is commonly used and is very easy to write and use. Some languages are better for logic programming – Python; and some are better for functional programming – Ruby. Some websites are preferred to be made on specific languages. Social networking dynamic sites like twitter use Ruby on Rails. Highly interactive sites like online casino and sports betting sites can be designed using Python and other similar languages.

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Easier Web Development with the Open Source LAMP Platform

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Current age is the age of the Internet. With increasing number of websites on the Internet, everything is finding its presence on the Internet. Ease of building websites of any level of complexity has been increased due to various developments in the technology. Open source software has contributed to the great extent towards the immense ease of designing, developing, deploying and hosting of the websites in minimum time and in almost zero cost. The LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) platform is one of such combinations of open source software that has been behind the success of countless website currently present on the Internet.
The LAMP platform is a collection of four components that make it a perfect match for development and hosting of a variety of kinds of dynamic and static websites. Linux being the server operating system runs the Apache web server. This combination is sufficient to host most static websites. For running the dynamic websites, Apache web server is installed on the Linux based server machine with PHP and MySQL extensions configured.
In order to develop and run a dynamic website, PHP server side scripting language is used. It is often used along with MySQL database server, which is a powerful database management system capable of handing enterprise level database transactions. These four technology components form the LAMP platform, which is sufficient to host and run dynamic as well as static sites.
Evolution of open source software has allowed developers from all over the world to contribute to the development of other several open source software, such as CMS’s, shopping carts, e-commerce based applications, albums and galleries, product catalogs etc. These open source software can be hosted on the LAMP platform and can be directly installed and used even by the people with less or no programming experience. No wonder why millions of sites today are making use of custom-built and ready to use software for running on the LAMP server. Other platforms such as Windows based IIS servers are far behind than LAMP as far as the market share is concerned.