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So I have a Windows Server 2012 64bit and I want to host a heavy website on it.
Thing is I am using WAMPServer and the website goes down without me doing anything, when I restart WAMPServer, it's working again.
The server never goes down, it's just the website so I am guessing it's WAMPServer's in-stability here.

I see my server has IIS 8.0 installed. Is there a way to configure IIS with MySQL, Apache, phpmyadmin ?

I really don't want to use WAMPServer now.

Thanks
 
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NEC released his own server.
It comes with nginx which is lightweight and fast
Code: 
http://www.wjunction.com/64-webmaster-resources/36595-neweracracker-server-windows-apache-nginx-php-mariadb-v3.html
Worth checking out.

XAMPP is good as well
Code: 
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
 
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If you're going to host a public, production website based on Apache, PHP and MySQL, Windows is really not your best choice... That does not mean it won't work, but it's not the best tool for the job...

That being said, for development and testing work, I like to use XAMPP as well, it's a well-put-together package
 
I just installed ZPanel. Let's home things run fine .
(XAMPP and WAMP just sounded like the same thing to me so I kinda ignored em' )
 
streambox said:
If you're going to host a public, production website based on Apache, PHP and MySQL, Windows is really not your best choice... That does not mean it won't work, but it's not the best tool for the job...

That being said, for development and testing work, I like to use XAMPP as well, it's a well-put-together package
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^^ Above is kinda true if you are expecting to use apache as IIS is far superior to anything else being that it is a windows server edition.


Your best to either learn IIS or manually install apache+mysql+php to your liking then setup some custom scripts to auto restart the setup every few days or so that way you dont come to a issue of windows ram problems.
 
like streambox sayed, Windows is not the best choise for hosting. i would recommend you a linux distro (CentOS is the most used). on linux it's very simple to setup a webhost. linux is designed for servers, windows for home usage. like shadow.prx sayed, i recommend nginx too. i hosted more than 10k per 5 minutes visitors streaming website without problems or high cpu usage (less than 5% cpu).
 
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So I have a Windows Server 2012 64bit and I want to host a heavy website on it.
Thing is I am using WAMPServer and the website goes down without me doing anything, when I restart WAMPServer, it's working again.
The server never goes down, it's just the website so I am guessing it's WAMPServer's in-stability here.

I see my server has IIS 8.0 installed. Is there a way to configure IIS with MySQL, Apache, phpmyadmin ?

I really don't want to use WAMPServer now.

Thanks
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Hello, you first have to disable IIS. You can do so by running (via WIN+R) services.msc and disabling two services:
  • World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC)
  • IIS Admin Service (IISADMIN)

Then you can use my WAMP package in your server:
Code: 
http://www.wjunction.com/64-webmaster-resources/36595-neweracracker-server-windows-apache-nginx-php-mariadb-v3.html

For email server I recommend hMailServer:
Code: 
http://www.hmailserver.com/index.php?page=download

And, finally for DNS, I recommend Simple DNS (Let me know via PM if you wish a cracked version):
Code: 
http://www.simpledns.com/download.aspx

Also, if you haven't installed .Net Framework 3.5 you may wish to do so:
Code: 
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2012/05/14/windows-8-and-net-framework-3-5.aspx
 
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then go for XAMPP it is a free and open source cross-platform web server solution stack package, consisting mainly of the Apache HTTP Server, MySQL database, and interpreters for scripts written in the PHP and Perl programming languages.
 
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