Win Web Hosting

well it they are the same, but it depends on the features you need if you need ASP, PHP, SSL, if you need MYSQL (which is windows based) compared to just SQL.

I’ve only used Linux and it cheaper and I’d guess used by more people than windows. I doubt one would be much faster than other but price difference in price is substantial.

Everything you need to run a website is available for linux I think it is the way to go.

I wouldn’t try to learn windows now “meaning myself” but that’s my personal choice.

That depends on your experience.
Do you have good knowledge of linux, do you want to spend sometime learning very technical details? if the answers are no than use Windows.

Danil Sholokhov
IT Consulting & Management
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All websites today currently run on either a Windows web server or a Linux-based server. The vast majority of websites run on a Linux-based platform as Linux has a strong reputation for security and web server performance. With standard (static) HTML-based websites, the web hosting platform doesn’t make much difference. When it does make a difference, however, is when the website uses a dynamic scripting technology such as ASP (A Microsoft based technology), or PHP / PERL (Linux based technologies). A Windows-based hosting solution will run a Microsoft Windows server with IIS (Internet Information Server), and is necessary to run an ASP / ASP.NET scripted website. A Linux-based platform is typically used for PHP, Perl, and most other types of websites. Basically, unless your website uses ASP (pages ending in the .asp extention), Windows hosting is not neccessary.

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Good Luck!

Hi Andrew,

When it comes to how fast they load web pages, it’s almost impossible to do a head to head comparison, as they both use very different technologies and software.

On the other hand, Linux is easier to manage because cPanel and WHM (Web Host Manager) are both highly user friendly.

Although FrontPage 2002 would work more completely on a windows server, most functions work fine on a Linux server too.

In my humble opinion, FrontPage is not a powerful editor. It tends to “self-generate” lots of redundant code than it should which in turn will slow down the loading of web pages. Renaming a file inside the program can take ages. And a lot more technical issues that can rip you apart.

I would suggest you to get a better WYSIWYG HTML editor web design software tool to build your web pages.

Oh, so Linux or Windows for web hosting?

Some people use Windows hosting because they’re running specific Windows applications such as ASP.NET, MSSQL, MS Access, Visual Basic development, etc that require Windows OS.

If you don’t need those Windows applications in your website, Linux will be your best bet. Hosting with Linux doesn’t really require you to be technically savvy. That’s why it’s more commonly used and popular among webmasters.

That’s all about your queries, but if you need more in-depth details about the difference between Linux and Windows hosting, you can refer to the source below.

Hope that helps.

Wisely