At TerraSoft we rely on mature technologies and industry standards that provide 100% reliability, portability and scalability. All solutions we are offering have been carefully engineered and tested to ensure the best performance for all the product's life cycle. We strongly support the use of free technologies like PHP in order to cut the additional costs for you, our customer. Therefore your project's budget will be used entirely for the creation and development of the project, no additional fees will be charged for licenses and/or other software you need to run your application. Why choose PHP & MySQL for my web project? We choose PHP because there are already over 22 milion domains on over 1 milion IPs that are currently using it. http://www.php.net/usage.php We choose MySQL - it 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 6 million installations ranging from large corporations to specialized embedded applications on every continent in the world. http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/ Both PHP and MySQL are highly portable, both *NIX and Windows distributions are allways available and kept up to date Both technologies can be used for commercial purposes without any costs. For best performace and reliability TerraSoft advises you to choose a *NIX (Linux/UNIX) based hosting, with the latest stable versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL set up.