web hosting Information LINUX vs WINDOWS
A big task to every web hosting seeker is to choose a right platform. A platform forms the base, it decides your web site shape and functionality. One of the tough task is do so is taking a decision on web hosting server operating system, so far big movers has been Linux and Windows. Though UNIX has huge market share enterprise segment only very little in shared web hosting. Most of the available online information are driven by web hosting provider and they tend to support what they use. Microsoft (MS) owns the Windows operating system. Linux is open source and generally free, in some distributions it is licensed on support, but still code is open. This means it can often be more expensive to set up and run a Windows server. This fact does not affect you much unless your are actually setting up server for yourself. But generally windows based shared hosting prices are little costly.This article is aimed to provide neutral comparison between popular share hosting operating system, Linux Vs Windows.
- Server Security comes down to the competency of the system administrators. In both Linux and windows user level control and access restrictions are built in. But Linux offers more control tweaking functionality. A secure web hosting provider should have fully tweaked OS to offer uncompromisable information security. This phase is called as OS hardening.
- Linux/Unix based servers have better security. Mainly because these operating systems have consistently been reliable while Windows is a big target for exploitation.
- Windows is seen as being insecure is that it is the most widely used operating system for home PC’s. People spend more time looking for flaws in the most common system. They try to attack server pc with techniques learned from local PC
- Some people naturally assume that because their PC runs Windows they need to buy a Windows hosting package. This isn’t true. Access to your web account will most likely be through FTP or a control panel and both servers support these methods.
- Linux performs faster because Windows (as usual) attempts to offer an ‘all in one’ package instead of the extendable Linux implementation
- Windows servers are more expensive to run, buying a Windows hosting package can often turn out to be a costly affair. Licensed Software apart from OS licenses individual licenses required for supporting applications
- Choice of server platforms depends on what you intend to put it. The majority of web features run fine on both platforms including PHP, mySQL, IMAP, POP3, JAVA etc. If you intend to create your site using ASP, FrontPage, the .NET environment, Windows Streaming Media, Access, MSSQL, or any of the other Microsoft proprietary technologies then you probably need to use a Windows host. Rewriting code to work with linux hosting is a big task
Take decision based on what are you going to do with the hosting account and how
More information on shared hosting security:
http://www.hexahost.com/blogs/honest-hosting/information-on-shared-hosting-security/
http://www.hexahost.com/blogs/honest-hosting/shared-hosting-security-2/
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For me, the best operating system is Linux because it rarely hangs.;..
You must be open source lover then
Does anyone know of a cheap but reliable web hosting company?’,.
there are many webhosting companies these days and most of them are overselling their products*:*
i always look for reviews about my webhosting server, if they have great review then i choose them.”‘
the best operating system is always Linux, after Linux it is Windows XP. Vista sucks:,”
the best webhosting provider should also provide 24 hour support and 99.99% uptime–”
when it comes to webhosting, try selecting a webhost with Directadmin rather than Webmin control panel~-;
there are many different operating systems but of course i would still prefer to use linux for stability `”.