[Vince]

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Originally Posted by Hansrutger What would you recommend using instead of XAMPP, while not being IIS because quite frankly I don't like it, again subjective.

XAMPP for Windows includes all of these:

• Apache
• MariaDB
• PHP
• phpMyAdmin
• OpenSSL
• XAMPP Control Panel
• Webalizer
• Mercury Mail
• Transport System
• Tomcat
• Strawberry Perl
• FileZilla FTP Server

Chances are you're only interested in the first four. So why bother with the rest if you're not going to use it? Waste of spaces, waste of resources. Install the components you need separately so you know what gets installed.

For Windows your webserver choices are pretty much limited to IIS and Apache. I tend to use either nginx or lighttpd as my webserver of choice (on Linux) but neither seem to have a very stable Windows version at the moment. I don't like Apache because it is overkill for my purposes. It uses a ton of memory which is quite taxing on a system with limited resources.