If you are wanting to build a website, you are probably wondering web hosting, Linux or Windows? I’m going to tell you right now, you want a Linux web hosting service! Here are some reasons why you want to have a Linux web hosting service instead of a Windows web hosting service.
The Linux operating system is more stable! This means that the computer that is serving your website to people every day, will not crash as often as Windows. If you are making money from your website selling products or services, you don’t want your website down at all. If your web site goes down, you can’t make any sales!
Linux operating system is free! So the web hosting company that owns all these web servers don’t have to pay another $300 to put Windows on each server. Which in turn will pass a slight savings onto you!
Linux is also built for networking and multitasking. So it can handle more people using the server at the same time without any problems. So if I had a server running Linux I could have 1,000 different customers using this same server. If I take this same exact server and I put Windows on it, I may only be able to have about 500 different customers using the same server. So again it’s cheaper for the Linux web hosting service so they don’t have to buy as many servers. Remember more servers is more money they have to spend on the servers themselves and also the electric to run that server. So again, you get a little bit of these saving passed onto you!
Linux servers are also more secure! There are many ways Linux is more secure, but the main reasons here, is account security! Your account is safer from hackers if your web hosting service is using Linux. Your customers credit cards and such are safer from attacks. Also your website is safer, so attackers don’t break your website, change your website, or even steal your files!
Linux can not get computer viruses! So your account will be safe from computer viruses ruining your data, stealing customer username, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.
So if you are wanting to check out some Linux web hosting services, below are some Linux web hosts that Beginner Linux Tutorial recommends:
NOTE: If you want full details of each Linux web host please check out our Linux Web Hosting section!
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ReplyDeleteGood sharing.I share my opinion about these platforms.Windows hosting:
ReplyDeleteWindows hosting runs on windows OS based server.Windows software is expensive.It's not an open source like Linux,If your website is based on HTML,ASP,.NET,VB and with MS SQL database, windows hosting will be suitable for that.Windows won't support perl,postgre etc..
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