Webhosting & You

Even if you’re running windows as your hosting platform, I’ve always like Apache as webserver for the pure reason that it’s incredibly flexible and powerful. Granted IIS is as well but I’ve spent the majority of my time on configuring and stabilizing Apache so that’s what I will focus on in these articles. Also if you learn to configure and work with Apache, you will have an easier time in the future if you switch to a non-windows platform such as RedHat Linux.

Apache is a key ingredient in configuring your hosting platform.  It will serve up pages from your domains and will allow you to build dynamic sites.  Out of the box it will let you password protect directories, setup virtual hosts, specify multiple paths, etc. There are hundreds of plugins for it allowing for different languages such as Java/PHP/Python/Perl and even .NET applications to run on it. You can use Apache as proxy for web surfing as well. So, that’s why in a nutshell I lean toward Apache as a webserver.

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