XAMPP might even be decent for production, it seems secure. It has a ton of futures. I wonder if it's good enough to use in a production environment. :)

Nope! Not that I'm aware of. :( You'll probably have to ask your host about it. :(

If you just installed the latest PHP, you'll have to have a web server such as apache installed.

Try xampp (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html) if you want a quick install of php....

Why don't you just generate the full image on one server? I'm not really sure what you mean. How is generating half of an image on one server and a full image on another server?

Why are you using...