YungOdo
Jan 5 2008, 04:29 AM
| | 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? |
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karlosvalencia
Jan 5 2008, 04:33 AM
QUOTE(YungOdo @ Jan 4 2008, 11:29 PM)  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.
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coolcat50
Jan 5 2008, 05:26 AM
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.
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rvalkass
Jan 5 2008, 11:24 AM
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.
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zamaliphe
Jan 5 2008, 12:41 PM
QUOTE(rvalkass @ Jan 5 2008, 11:24 AM) 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
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techclave
Feb 2 2008, 07:20 AM
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!
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tricky77puzzle
Feb 10 2008, 11:32 PM
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.
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mweber
Sep 21 2008, 03:16 PM
Hi, The difference really between Linux and Windows is.... 1. Linux you are not giving the man a ridiculouse power over not only home computers but corporate computers as well 2. Linux is made by the people for the people so as such will tend to be on the bleeding edge a little more.. 3. Linux is much more secure than windows... 4. I just dont like windows 5. Come on now have you seen the videos on youtube of the microsoft VP Lol to be honest guys microsofts wings should be clipped.... and if in doubt the french have the right idea as there goverment has just switched all major computer systems to a form of SUSE Linux
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miladinoski
Sep 21 2008, 03:56 PM
Eh, I think you should choose a Linux based server because they are more reliable, secure and offer more features than a Windows hosting - and for some reason, even though it's better than the Windows one, it's a lot cheaper in most cases. You should go with Windows hosting if you have ASP.net coding skills or want a more user-friendly enviroment, but I don't recommend you do so... Oh, and if you aren't sure about with which hoster you should start, (except Trap17  ) you should definitively try Dreamhost - because their offer is amazing! I don't have the money to buy hosting ('cause I'm too young) but when I turn 18 I would definitively buy a hosting from those guys 
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bluedragon
Sep 22 2008, 03:11 PM
correction miladinoski .. I dont think you are totally correct .. i mean there are ways for ASP.net to work on Linux.. I think so .. And Linux is more stable than Windows.. thats why its generally there on 90 % of the servers. Also the hardware requirement in case of Linux pc is less than that in Windows based PCs. Since server is only a piece of software that runs on the OS.. The stability of the OS decides the stability of the OS
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