Shared vs. VPS vs. dedicated hosting

Building on the concept of “tenancy,” the most common analog to the differences between shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting is the difference between types of housing: Shared hosting is analogous to apartment housing, where tenants share services like parking, a laundry room, a swimming pool, etc. Dedicated hosting is most similar single-family homeownership, where everything—including … Read more

VPS (Virtual Private Server)

A VPS, or virtual private server, is a form of multi-tenant cloud hosting in which virtualized server resources are made available to an end user over the internet via a cloud or hosting provider. Each VPS is installed on a physical machine, operated by the cloud or hosting provider, that runs multiple VPSs. But while … Read more

What is: WAMP

WAMP is sometimes used as an abbreviated name for the software stack Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP. It is derived from LAMP which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. As the name implies, while LAMP is used on Linux servers, WAMP is used on Windows servers. Because WordPress isn’t usually installed on Windows Servers, WAMP … Read more

What is XAMPP? – Apache Friends

XAMPP is a completely free, easy to install Apache distribution containing MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. The XAMPP open source package has been set up to be incredibly easy to install and to use. XAMPP Download About Apache Friends Apache Friends is a non-profit project to promote the Apache web server and is home to the … Read more

XAMPP – wiki

XAMPP (/ˈzæmp/ or /ˈɛks.æmp/) is a free and open-source cross-platform web server solution stack package developed by Apache Friends, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages. Since most actual web server deployments use the same components as XAMPP, it makes transitioning … Read more

WAMP Server

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache2, PHP and a MySQL database. Alongside, PhpMyAdmin allows you to manage easily your databases