Deploying A LAMP Stack With UKHost4u Cloud Solutions

In this article, we’re going to be guiding you through the process of deploying a LAMP stack on the UKHost4u Cloud Solutions platform.

A LAMP stack is a set of software that provides the functionality needed to host a website or application over the internet.

LAMP stacks are made up of 4 core components:

Linux – the operating system
Apache – the web server
MySQL – the database server
PHP – the programming language

So let’s get into it!

Creating our Environment

Now we’re going to go through each step of the configuration for our LAMP stack.

First, we need to open our UKHost4u cloud solutions platform and click the Create New Environment button.

Here we have our environment builder tool. This is where we will be doing all of the configurations for our LAMP stack.

Now we need to select the type of environment we’ll be building. Since our environment uses PHP as the programming language, we need to select the PHP option.

Web Server

The first thing we need to configure is our web server. In this case, we will be using Apache.

As you can see, it’s already been enabled by default, but if you need to use a different web server just pick the one you want from the drop-down menu.

Database Server

Next up is the database server.

So navigate to the MySQL section, and choose the database server you need. As this is a LAMP stack, we will be using MySQL community edition.

Operating System

The final aspect of our LAMP stack that we need to configure is the operating system.

Just navigate to the VPS option, and select the Operating System to use from the menu.

We can use any type of Linux you need, but for now, we’re going to use CentOS.

Additional options

And with that, the basic setup for our LAMP stack is finished!

Before creating the environment however, you can configure some additional options if you wish.

Under Application Servers, we can configure vertical scaling for our LAMP stack.

Essentially, this means dynamically adding more power to the server at any time, if resource usage is very high.

Below this, we can configure horizontal scaling, which means dynamically adding more nodes to the cluster, so that it’s able to process a higher number of requests when your server experiences traffic spikes.