LAMP is a technology that became a lot popular in the early 1990’s as the technology allows the user of the web browser to execute program on the web server. The full form of LAMP is Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl. Linux is an operating system while Apache is a web server, MySQL is a database management system, and the PHP or Perl or Python are the scripting languages.

The combination of all these allows a user to run a program on the web browser with ease. The designers of all these open source programs did not really make all these keeping this combination in mind, but the combination has become popular by itself as it is cost effective and also because it is ubiquitous.

Any website designer who wishes to have a high quality of PHP and MySQL or pgSQL web applications with convenience and at low cost then LAMP provides the best platform for it. Several of the custom designed e-business solutions are made on this ultimate combination of LAMP. This has made it the most famous and widely used open source combination. PHP can develop dynamic websites that is data base driven; therefore, it can be used for making e-commerce websites or any other websites through this unique combination.

LAMP is thus a very reliable and widely used web application and development platform that is freely available. It is a platform that enables the user to develop and deploy simple as well as complex database driven websites on the server. Several noteworthy advantages of LAMP are that it is low costing, reliable, scalable and secure web applications. The best part about this technology is that it can be used for websites of all kinds whether large or small.