Windows vs Linux - Choosing The Right Hosting Platform
The main thing to remember is that your choice of hosting
platform will describe the type of software and the kind of applications
and services that your website will utilize.
You cannot say that Windows 2k has more expandability and
adaptability in concern to important website components such databases or
integration with your desktop PC components. However, those items come
with a price - Windows is not very good stable than Unix and very little
freeware or low cost software additions that you can add to your web site
to increase its effectiveness such as: hit counters, voting scripts, and
web site form mailers, mail solutions.
The
Advantages of Unix / Linux Hosting
Linux is a very flexible and capable operating system Since Unix is an open
source platform, tons of developers have already created a
wide variety of CGI scripts, PHP scripts, and MySQL applications
that will work on nearly any Unix / Linux system. If you choose Windows
hosting, you may find that many of the scripts you want to use won't work
since they were not designed for Windows.
The
Advantages of Windows Hosting
There are some O.S specific application that specially
written for propriety operating system. Windows servers are that they are
ready to support with Microsoft
applications, such as FrontPage, Access and MS SQL. Windows servers
also offer web developers the use of programming environments such as
Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic Scripts, MS Index Server and Cold
Fusion.
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