Linux Hosting
Linux Hosting
How Linux Hosting is different from Windows hosting?
Which one is better? Why? Prove your word.
Thanks.
The main difference would be the availability (if you need it) of ASP or ASP.NET for server-side scripting. A Windows server has one or both, everybody else doesn’t. Windows servers can run PHP (some don’t choose to…check!)
That difference for you may be critical, or of no importance, depending on what you want to run. If you need to run an ASP[.NET] application, you need a Windows server. If not, you can play with the next choice. How much do you want to pay?
A host pays per-user license fees for Windows. Linux is free, the Apache web server is free. PHP is free. MySQL is free. That allows hosts to offer Linux hosting for less money, typically, for the same share of a server.
If you’re doing original application development, a similar thing happens. Windows has some neat developer tools and closer integration of the web server with the OS. However, the real tools (not counting VWD Express) aren’t free and this tends to mean fewer developers with good ASP.NET skills compared to PHP.
(PHP still leads both C# and VB/VB.NET in the Tiobe Index, and most of the C#/VB usage is NOT for web apps.)
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Ultimately, though, only you can answer the “Which is better?” question, based on your specific needs. I have a small site I use for testing stuff, mainly, and chose my host mostly because of SSH logon support. The Internet was pretty much invented on Unix, so Linux is the obvious choice. Besides…I’m a fan of Open Source.
Best Inexpensive Web Hosting. Linux hosting.
