LAMP, for those who don’t know, is a software architecture commonly deployed for high availability web applications. It’s entirely open source (meaning free to use) and is very inexpensive to get started with (some hosting plans offer LAMP for as little as $2-3/mo). I’ve worked with a number of websites running on LAMP and find as a developer I think very little about what’s going on under the hood. Recently I had a horrible experience (fortunately one that was reversible) deploying a site onto FreeBSD — afterall, there’s a reason this is called LAMP and not FAMP. (more…)
