Linux is a popular Operating System, that is commonly used for web servers, given that it features a wide variety of advantages over other Operating Systems. It's regarded as being the most secure OS out there and owing to the way it functions, corrupted files will simply not work. As Linux is free to use, no license fees shall be included to the price which you'll have to pay for your web hosting service. That, subsequently, makes it possible for the provider to customize the Operating system in accordance with what they and their customers want, removing unwanted packages to optimize the Operating system and the server’s performance. Linux servers typically come with the Apache web server software, which processes site access requests. Apache is also free and easy to customize, not to mention that it's very fast and light in terms of the system resources it requires. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is the software environment which a lot of the most well-known script apps require – Moodle, WordPress, Joomla™, etc. The LAMP configuration is the most commonly used one worldwide, because it is stable and easy to maintain.
