If you work with MySQL, there will be instances in which you need to give remote access to the server. Say, for example, you have servers set up specifically for database and web: Your web server ...

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.

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eWEEK 30: The Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) combination provided a reliable set of servers, operating systems, languages and tools that helped the Web rapidly grow into what it is today.

Instead of the Apache web server on Windows, you can run IIS (WIMP). Instead of the MySQL relational database in the LAMP stack, you could run PostgreSQL or SQL Server.

Zero Touch Linux includes a GUI-based administration tool to configure and tune all settings across all the applications packaged on the server, with Apache Web server, MySQL and PostgreSQL ...

That means that you’ll have a VM for the web/ftp server, another for the database server, another for the mail server, perhaps two more for the DNS server.