Updated: 03/30/06

PHPToday the best and most affordable solution to build an e-commerce site is by using MySQL and PHP, which are two open source technologies the are often combined to develop web applications. The main advantage of PHP is its efficiency. Using a single inexpensive server, you can serve millions of hits per day. If you use large numbers of commodity servers, your capacity is efficiently unlimited. Benchmarks published by Zend Technologies (www.zend.com) show PHP outperform its competition.

 

 

MySqlThe MySQL® database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used in more than 8 million installations ranging from large corporations to specialized embedded applications on every continent in the world. (Yes, even Antarctica!) Most Webhosting services offer PHP and MySQL support and BlurImage is focused on these two technologies.