Okay i recently bought a godaddy hosting account. Now my question is whats the difference between the Linux OS hosting, and the Windows OS hosting?

Kind of self explanatory. On the 1st one the server runs on a Linux OS and a webserver like apache while on the other one will run on windows-based technology like Advanced server 2003 or something like that.

Yeah, the software used for the server and the actualy OS are different. Also, different features could be present on each. Linux is a more secure OS for servers and probably includes PHP hosting. Windows is a little less secure, but ASP hosting could be offered. I would look at the packages for each OS.

Aside from the obvious (Linux hosting runs a Linux-based OS (often Debian), while a Windows host usually runs a Windows Server version), there are differences in the features you get too. Both should offer PHP, MySQL and all that stuff, and you will usually find they both run Apache as their web server. However, if you want to use ASP, you will need to go for Windows hosting. There are Linux 'ports' of it that claim to work, but as far as I know they are not really that good at the moment.

The advantage of a Linux server is that you get better security and reliability compared to a Windows server. You will also find a lot more of the advanced features on Linux hosting, that aren't available on Windows hosting.

in my openin if you wold like to know moor about linux tray to use linux os

it is not that hard just download 700 mb cd and bearn it then boot the live cd

then you can see the live of linux world

if you like to go for linux hosting make sure it dos offer shell access

that is the power of linux on the shell command line

you can zip unzip chang permissons of files folders and so on

This post has been edited by zamaliphe: Jan 5 2008, 12:52 PM

Windows hosting means that your hosting server is run on Windows platform like windows 2003, xp etc
if it is Linux hosting then it runs on any of the linux platforms.

the web hosting provided my trap17 is linux hosting.

linux hosting has many advantages over windows hosting. technologies like jsp wont work in windows platform. but, almost most of the technologies or languages supported by windows is also supported by linux hosting servers. moreover, linux is much more safer and down time is less.

people go in for windows platform because of ease of maintaining and configuring the servers. it gives a more user frindly environment.

but windows hosting very costly compared to linux hosting. i would personally recomend you linux hosting.

good luck!

I would get Linux hosting myself, since it's reliable and things like MySQL are offered, and also because I don't really need ASP.