If you've never deployed a website with the Apache web server, you're about to learn how. Every so often, taking a step back and going through the basics is good.

Apache is used by about 65 percent of all websites. The second most widely used Web server software is Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Services), running about 14.5 percent of websites.

Apache with standalone PHP might prove far less optimal than a lightweight event-driven Web server like Nginx with standalone PHP. My mental wheels began turning.