Many people recognize Linux Web Hosting as the best type of web hosting solution around, because of the added advantages of this web hosting solutions, which provide reliability, security, functionality, and affordability all in the one package.
Linux Servers Advantages
Linux servers have been known to run for long periods of time without technical difficulties or down time being experienced, which is a considerable achievement since many Microsoft servers need to refresh and reboot their operating systems at regular intervals.
Linux installations have no known vulnerabilities in their security operating system; however, it is still considered a priority of Linux to keep their systems running with the best degree of security around.
Linux also offers its customers the added advantage of cheaper Linux based web hosting solutions. This is largely due to open source distributions; hosts generally pass these savings onto their customers, making Linux web hosting solutions extremely affordable.
Disadvantages of Linux Servers
With every advantage of a hosting solution, there has to be disadvantages as well, Linux hosting solutions are no exception to this rule. One of the main disadvantages of Linux based applications is that they are unable to accommodate windows applications and the coding conversions. This can spell disaster for websites that have been coded especially for windows based applications.
When choosing a web hosting provider for Linux, make sure he offers all the basics services on security, including firewall, load balance for the servers, Denial of Attack (DOS) protection.
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Also, there are some basics services any web hosting service should include, such as MYSQL services, statistics (preferably two scripts), antivirus and antispam services (added or included) and the possibility to add your own scripts via FTP. If your web hosting service provider doesn’t include SSH access (this is very common), make sure they can offer you support to install those scripts. Of course, if your script presents a security flaw, your web hosting provider may ask you to change it or deny installing it altogether.
Windows web hosting servers
Windows web hosting solutions provide many benefits such as NET support, ASP, visual basic C++ and pearl scripts. Windows are also known for their dynamic page displays. All windows hosting plans, as well as MSSql for more experienced webmasters support the Microsoft Access 2000 database and are generally easy and strait forward to apply codes to.
Although Windows hosting packages offer a large number of benefits and extras, the fact that they have the odd security problem, are prone to down time, and scheduled rebooting on a regular basis remains a viable disadvantage to using windows servers as a web hosting solution.
While the choice of a web-hosting server is an individual decision, those looking for a hosting solution should consider the benefits and disadvantages of both windows and Linux severs before making a choice.
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#1 by Mike on January 31, 2010 - 8:11 am
Whats the difference between Linux & Windows Hosting?
When I was buying my domain, it gave me the option of selecting an OS.
I decided to go with Linux, but is there any major difference?
Can you also assign file permission on Windows?
#2 by Pete on January 31, 2010 - 1:13 pm
As far as features, they can both do most of the same, just in different ways. Linux Servers do not support ASP.NET, while most Windows servers will not run PHP (most…some are able to).
Personally, I think ASP.NET is a quite a bit more powerful than PHP, but that’s just because you can use several different languages, and Visual Studio makes development so much easier. Also, ASP.NET has some very awesome bundled features such as the ability to program a login script in very short amount of time. PHP is a little less overwhelming though, and still an extremely versatile and powerful language.
Windows servers are generally quite a bit more expensive to buy space on than Linux, though.
If you are just hosting a small-time website, the difference won’t be noticeable. You will pull everything off on one that you would the other. If you start developing enterprise level web applications though, you should probably take a harder look at the differences between the two and what you hope to get out of it.
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