Why is XAMPP not suited for production? [closed]

Like you say yourself, it's all about security and out-of-the-box, XAMPP is pretty insecure. Apart from that there are no real drawbacks that I can see. The software in XAMPP is regularly used in stable, secure, commercial systems. It takes a bit of knowledge and time to configure XAMPP to become secure enough for production use (and this is the reason why people keep telling you not to do it), but since it looks like you've got it covered there should be no problem.

Though I haven't ever tried to configure windows in that way, I can think of a few problems (other than security):

• managing windows and software updates - I find it hard to manage whole windows system through console and I can't imagine managing it in production
• performance - (comparing localhosts) linux in my case was always faster
• scalability of web apps - majority of apps is set up to work in linux server envirionment, so running or integrating 3-rd party libraries or other apps can be sometimes difficult eg. other paths, calls to console could not work etc.

These problems could be irrelevant in your case, but when developing a bigger project should be taken into account.