[Vince]

Anything ran under root = bad. The root user should only be used for updating system settings, never to run any kind of services. Likewise, a 777 folder is nearly always a bad thing. There are certain directories that need to be writable by the outside world such as the "uploads" directory of a forum, but little else.

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Originally Posted by supernerd2000 Yes, it does... Are you sure you should be running a hosting company if you think Apache doesn't work with Ubuntu?

May have meant cPanel, which only works on CentOS, but as far as I know Apache works on any modern Linux distro. That said, I'd rather prefer Lighttpd or nginx over the bulky, memory hogging Apache for a small to medium-large server any day.