Linux Versus Windows? What Is The Best Web Hosting Service To Choose?

Posted by The Popular News Today on Friday, March 16, 2012

By Katay Don Sasorith


To emphasize on managed hosting, mostly users look for either to choose Windows or else Linux/Unix Web Hosting. A web-host is a kind of Internet public service that permits organizations and individuals to give World Wide Web entrance to their websites. If we need to use active scripting web contents like E-Commerce web application, forums or blogs then we are obliged to select the web congregation platforms according to our needs.

The question which webhosting service is the best to choose depends on following aspects. Whenever any website is launched on a win-based Server it is referred to as Windows Hosting. This kind of a host is preferable for websites that make use of particular applications e. G., ASP.NET, ASP, FrontPage, MSSQL, MS Access, Streaming Media, Expression Web or any other Microsoft proprietary technologies.

Linux/Unix is famous for its flexibility and user friendly interface. It is best suited for Network Server Management. Due its compatibility with most of the modern Network Server Platforms, it has gained much popularity over other standards. Conventionally, applications scripted using MySQL and PHP are often run under this platform/operating system.

Unix is in itself an open source platform and its license fee is inexpensive which is much less as compared to Win-based web services. So, congregating companies are acquired to buy license for running a Win-based machine as services includes software packages and products with respective license fees. As a result, the supplementary cost for license is accredited to the consumers. This has caused the wide rift in prices between both the two popular platforms.

The important point to note before you host a website, and something that many users seem not to understood, is that if one has say Windows on the computer, then they do not have to employ the same operating system for web-host services. There is no restriction in it i. E., operating system of web service account can be dissimilar to computers operating system. Like if a website contains some static contents i. E., HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) pages, then it can run on both hosting servers.

The key difference between Linux files and Windows file is that former one is case sensitive while the later one is case insensitive. For instance on Linux, www.yahoo.com/index.html is different from www.yahoo.com/Index.html . But does not matter either the domain name is written in capital or not. Conversely, on Windows server, index.html and Index.html is one and the same thing.

Both of the proposals have gained great features which aid in developing web applications. Other than that there are large number of PHP open source or free software which is based on Unix policy including Joomla, Drupal, WordPress and Zen Cart etc. Linux-OS always perform better than Windows platform with respect to web-host at Operating System stage. Therefore, developers easily find free software to quickly start their websites.




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