WAMP Server - What is...

[@BinaryReader]

WAMP? What year is it again?

[@BinaryReader]

@Jordan Um, most people seem to gravitate to self hosting processes which allow one to scale out some process without the need to scale the web application server also (Apache in this instance). Application instances are usually behind a proxy (nginx) or behind a load balancer with TLS termination managed at the proxy or LB. For the most part, its just an easier workflow. Dedicated LAMP/WAMP servers are fairly uncommon in the world of cloud, where your deployment is defacto run across N servers anyway. So RDS or similar for your database, EC2 or similar for your application, maybe some containerization for some deployments. Things are just a bit more split out nowadays than the monolithic LAMP/WAMP setup. Postgres, Cassandra, MSSQL and even Mongo are popular data stores to just MySQL. And its becoming more and more common to leverage some brokers of some kind, so some AMQP service like RabbitMQ, or Apache Kafka. PHP has reached version 7, but I feel many people have opted out of PHP in favor of things like nodejs (specifically in tandem with typescript) or .NET Core, or even things like Rust which all support self hosting. Lastly, while WAMP might support Active Directory in some capacity on Windows (via Integrated Windows Security i suppose), as Eli said, if you're willing to pay for a windows server to run some software, you might as well go all in with IIS (which supports tightly integrated security out of the box). I haven't installed WAMP for like 12 years. (or LAMP for that matter). Its fairly uncommon to see traditional LAMP services (in my experience anyway), with many self managed LAMP servers moved to cloud managed services, probably with things like WordPress.

[@Jakeu1701]

@@BinaryReader I would agree this setup is not the best for personal web servers hosting external sites/applications, but it can be ideal for developing locally (dev/QA/UAT) before publishing to prod in a cloud or other server situation.

[@Norogoth]

@@BinaryReader I read this comment and I just got an email that I have a bachelor's in web hosting 1 second later.

[@syedarmaghanhassan4652]

Thanks for sharing. Clear, well spoken, to-the-point and knowledgeable

[@mulzsheikh9525]

This guy is a legend , best on KZbin and has helped me more then he knows . Thanks Eli keep it going 😎

[@jennawestfall6610]

You answered questions I didn't know I had! Thanks, super helpful

[@mattymurphy1987]

Hello Eli from the uk, am IT specialist in all aspects of IT but good video thanks for sharing (Y)

[@nizamersoft]

Good to see you back in this form

[@one2actual890]

Good explanation. Thanks @Eli the Computer Guy!

[@naserintegral]

I like when you speak science than any other topic

[@brandonfarfan1978]

Nice.

[@nizamersoft]

Where are you whiteboard formal classes?

[@farazsalehi9034]

What is apache do ?? Where php my admin come from ??

[@TheLighthouseUK]

you lost a "the question is" I am sure you know what you are talking about. Thanks

[@waipalisrevenge3707]

Can I python instead of PHP?

[@OA-iu3vh]

no

[@akanshsrivastava]

which is better xampp or wamp???

[@Cognitoman]

it don't really matter in general. They both are pretty much the same.

[@Cognitoman]

I guess it depends on what you trying to do, but if you are just tryin to use it for building websites on a local environment for development, then it don't matter.

[@Sparkfist]

XAMPP is good for prototyping or proof of concept. However if you plan it to be a reliable resource, go with WAMP.