People everywhere complain that WordPress is slow, or that they can’t survive a digg. They die if they get more than 10,000 visitors a day, their hosting providers ban them for using too many resources, and they cry because they have to purchase expensive hosting plans. If this describes your plight, before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and plunk down even more money, take a look at your WordPress setup and LAMP stack. You can make them better.
Link: Elliott Back
If you want to offer a search engine on your web site, but don’t want to go to one of the “Big Three” search providers, Michael Douma offers a rundown of the top search engines available that are implemented using PHP.
Link: ONLamp
Build Your Own Debian/Ubuntu LAMP Server – Quick & Easy Do it Yourself Installation.
Link: HowtoForge
Step-by-step directions on how to quickly and easily configure a cheap Dell GX150 into a fully functional headless file server using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) with Samba for accessible network shares, phpMyAdmin for MySQL administration, and TorrentFlux for BitTorrent transfers.
Link: Jon Peck