Should I Choose a Windows or Linux Hosting Plan?

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Jul 29, 2015
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One of the main questions that arise in the mind of every user is which web hosting service has been selected in order to design an effective website for their company. Choosing correct hosting platform is one of the most confusing decisions especially for those who are totally new to hosting world. Most of the users have general myth that hosting platform has been chosen based on the operating system they used but its wrong a myth. Instead the operating system you use on your computer does not affect the hosting you need for your website. What you should consider is the technology that will need your page. Most commonly used operating system that most of hosting companies used are Linux and windows. Each technology has its own pros and cons and an in-depth analysis is required when you have to choose one from amongst the two.

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What kind of hosting chooses?

We have previously said that the operating system we use on our computer does not affect the hosting we hire, what we must keep in mind when hiring our accommodations are the technologies used for the development of our website. Here we present brief information about Linux hosting and web hosting along with their benefits. Based on your knowledge and requirement you can opt amongst two.

If you are going to use Microsoft technology like ASP or .NET for developing the site, the best option that you choose is Windows hosting. Whereas if these programming languages is not used, while your project use the PHP programming language or Perl and MySQL database. then go for Linux hosting. Also if you are installing WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or content management system based on PHP then choose Linux web hosting, regardless of if you are using Windows as OS on your PC.

Both Linux and windows offer FTP access to your files, however Linux also offer Telnet and SSH access. Telnet and SSH helps you to open a window directly on the server and manipulate & control files from there with simple UNIX commands.

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MySQL and Access are two most popular databases commonly used in database programming.  If you need a database to execute dynamically driven websites then you have to use among two of them. MySQL runs only on Linux while Access runs only on windows. Linux operating systems are very secure and stable and website house on this platform will have very high up-time. Linux provides low cost of ownership when compared with windows operating system.

The process of hosting and uploading is the same in both the cases. However a website designed to be hosted on a Linux based web server can also be hosted on a windows based web server, whereas the reverse isn't possible.

After this through discussion still you are in confused state and not able to decide which hosting platform Linux or Windows you chose then come up with Pace Infonet a leading web solution provider company that not only assists their users in selecting hosting platform but offer a control panel from which the user can manage their hosting and performing from there the most common tasks, such as creating email accounts, FTP accounts, create database and many more. 

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