In the web hosting industry, there are 2 main platforms which dominant the entire industry today, which is the web hosting solution which runs on Linux platform or on the Windows platform. Each of these 2 web solutions has their own pros and cons respectively, thus before anyone can decide which one of them to choose from, they need to understand what really constituted each of these hosting solutions, in making sure that what their requirements and needs are met and fulfilled respectively.

Windows is a property of Microsoft. If you are going to use any Microsoft applications like ASP.Net, Visual C++ or Frontpage, then it's advisable that you use Windows hosting.From performance point of view there is not much difference between Windows and Linux hosting. Linux systems are more stable and less vulnerable to security breach. So with Linux hosting, you can expect more up time. Linux system runs for long time without rebooting. Windows need frequent rebooting after upgrade.

Major difference comes in price. Linux hosting is cheaper than Windows hosting. So if you are looking for cheap and reliable web hosting with no special usage of any Microsoft application then you should choose Linux web hosting.

The popularity of Windows solution has allowed web hosting companies to charge more on Windows web hosting because of its name which has been highly trusted and dependent by many people. On the other hand, Linux is hard to sell as people does not really know what is Linux web hosting before now, which makes it hard to sell this Linux web hosting at any price closer to what Windows web hosting would have been sold.

Some of the advantages of Linux web hosting are: cheaper than Windows, support for PHP scripts and MySQL databases and some hosts may offer telnet accounts at no or little additional cost. In many circles Linux is believed to be more secure than Windows, and for that reason it is also the more popular choice for web designers and programmers. Linux web hosting also offers users many configuration and customization options.

The Linux operating system is also very stable, so you can expect high uptime from a Linux web hosting service. Linux supports most scripting languages and types of web files, and you can use files with all the following extensions: .html, .htm, .pl, .php, .shtml, .asp, .xml and others. The biggest disadvantage of a Linux based web hosting solution is that it is not compatible with Microsoft technologies, like ASP scripts.

Linux web hosting is much affordable. As we all known that Linux is open source and generally free whereas Windows operating system is developed and owned by Microsoft. This means that you can set up a Linux server totally free while quite expensive to set up and run a Windows server. As the web hosting companies need to pay more to set up a Windows server, they will convert the money to customers. Therefore, if you are short of money and do not have any special requirements for Windows-based programming languages and applications you can easily find a quite affordable and reliable Linux web hosting package.

It is of a great importance to understand your requirements and to find a hosting with an impressive array of features. A good Linux hosting provider will offer many useful features. The common software structure used to run web hosting services on Linux a server is commonly referred to LAMP or LAMP structure, which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Linux. This in fact is the most widely used combo of soft-wares used to support the development of dynamic websites. Most of hosting companies offer free one click installation script for content management systems like Joomla, Drupal, for blogs like WordPress, for forums, like phpBB, vBulleting, etc. Signing up with a web hosting company involves software for effective management of your web site.

Asides from the above, the customer support is also a main important factor. This is essential, because most of the problems you can't solve yourself. You might meet difficult situation or an unusual error cause problems for your websites. A hosting provider, need to have helpful technicians that can solve the problem quick and efficient, and you need their support 24/7.

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