Enter WampServer, an open source product that installs a PHP-apps-ready platform consisting of Apache web server, MySQL database, PHP, plus several helpful GUI-based utilities.

In addition, the company released MySQL Community Server, which is geared specifically toward open-source developers who want to get the latest updates and contribute fixes to the database code.

Uniform Server is a freeware server solution that lets you easily host a functional website on your Windows PC. It comes packed with Apache, MySQL, Coral, PHP and some other utilities.