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Linux web hosting (sometime referred to as LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) solutions are suitable for webmasters who use Linux hosting features.  These features can include Perl programming, PHP programming and MySQL databases.

Why Choose LAMP?

Linux Web Hosting allows a company to build its websites by using the Linux Operating System.  This as a platform gives companies the flexibility to take advantage of the best and most popular open-source technologies such as Python and XML.

Linux web hosting and Unix web hosting are the most common budget hosting platforms used today. They are cheap and provide enormous amounts of space in their web hosting plans, accompanied with lots of installed features.

Linux is an open source operating system which supports the growth of products released through the open source license.  Web developers use programming language like PHP, SQL database MySQL, web server and Apache. This means that your web site requirements will be fully supported by our hosting service.

A shell is a programme that runs commands, users type commands and the shell runs them on the Linux.

A path tells the user where something is located on the hard drive. 

Linux has a directory hierarchy that starts at / (known as ‘root’).  Within this there are several standard directories e.g. /bin, /usr and /home.  If a path starts / it is then known as an absolute path.