Richard Farrar's Blog

Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, or LAMP as they’re more affectionately known, are a collection of software packages that form the infrastructure supporting much of the World Wide Web. They have become the most common software packages used for web servers around the world today and moreover, they’re FREE!

While the individual software components that comprise a LAMP system are intrinsically separate, together their synergy offers a web server solution that is certainly much more than the sum of its individual parts. In fact, LAMP is so popular that it has almost become the de facto standard for web server systems across the globe.

Built upon open source and essentially free software, it is easy to see why LAMP has become so rapidly accepted by web hosting organisations as their server software system of choice. Furthermore, being free, there’s no reason not to try it for yourself and if you don’t get on with it, then you haven’t wasted any of your hard earned pennies in the process.

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The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 20 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s podcast we look at a competition to redesign Google’s front page, how to download printable PC tutorials for children and get adult cheat sheets for popular software.

You can find out how to cook your own pie charts and logos online, check the free security monitor that scans your Web site every day for hacker interference, find out what others know about you from sites you’ve visited, watch the best from the BBC archives and make personal appearances in famous movie clips.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

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