Windows vs Linux Hosting

When you’re looking for web hosting, you’ll come across two of the most popular hosting packages out there. It’s either Windows or Linux. Well by far, the most popular choice of many web hosting customers out there are Linux Hosting.

This is due to its nature of open-source Unix-type operating system versus a Windows operating system which has its legal wrangling and astronomical cost if you want upgrades.

And what is UNIX you may ask?

Well first developed by AT&T’s Bell in the 70’s, this operating systems has a reputation as one of the most versatile and secure OS around.

The secret as I told earlier is its open-source where users feedback for changes and even makes changes themselves to the OS.

Unix-based operating systems runs on popular two main systems, the OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It has it good and bad points but both are stable and free to use.

These systems run on almost all application languages such as Java, PHP, C++, Perl, C. Again another factor Linux has over Windows OS.

When looking for Linux hosting, ensure that is supports mySQL or SQL. But most Linux web hosting companies offers both. So if that is covered, ensure it allows unlimited database.

So you can’t go wrong with Linux Hosting. Around 75% of the internet web servers runs on Linux. It’s a cheaper option too!