The Linux server installations available with the major distributions don't provide some very useful components - Memcache for example. Memcache can provide a substantial advantages in website performance and minimizing wear on storage hardware.

The relatively long lead times to assemble a major distribution also ensures that they don't offer the latest releases of the Linux kernel, Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, etc.

Incorporating memcache into your server requires building PHP from source code. (You'll need to obtain the right version of the PHP source code, figure out the long list of parameters that have to be supplied to the configure script, compile the software, install the software, and then edit the software runtime configuration files.) When you try to compile php you'll discover that you also need to build Apache and PostgreSQL from source code to get it all working.

And when you try to compile Apache and PostgreSQL from source code, you'll discover that you need to custom compile a list of other software packages first.

Figuring out how to build a custom LAMP server is just the start of the fun. Once it's built you have to configure all the services - figuring out what features to enable and which to disable, with the comments in the configuration files being the first time you've ever heard of most of them.

And then you have to figure out how to administer your new server...

Overall Technology has already gone through the above process, and is offering a shortcut to success!

Software and documentation to build an advanced Linux server. Combines cutting edge versions of Apache (v2.2.4), PHP (v5.2.1), PostgreSQL (v8.2.3), and Memcache (v1.2.1), with specially configured kernel (v2.6.20.11) in a proven robust and reliable server built on AMD Athlon Dual-Core commodity hardware. Includes step by step detailed instructions on setting up https/ssl websites, sendmail/dovecot pop/smtp mail server, Slony database replication, and phpPgAdmin database admin utility. Based on CentOS Enterprise Server v5.0 (included). Documentation in English, server can support wide variety of user languages.

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