Comments on: Hosting Linux or Windows for personal/business website

By: Toby

Toby — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:25:13 +0000

People say that Windows is more expensive because hosting providers that offer Windows hosting generally charge more than hosting providers that only have Linux offerings. You can get free Linux hosting at places like freehostia.com but you cannot get free Windows hosting anywhere.

I try to stay away from the Microsoft-centric languages. Here’s why:

ASP and Dot Net technologies will run on:
Microsoft Servers with IIS

PHP will run on:
Microsoft Servers with IIS, Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
Linux with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
Solaris with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
FreeBSD with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
OpenBSD with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
NetBSD with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
Apple MacIntosh with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
HP-UX with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
AIX with Apache, Nginx, or Lighttp
You get the idea.

By: GideonD

GideonD — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:25:13 +0000

Yep, I’d go Linux. It’s just far more flexible. I don’t see nearly as many sites using ASP as I do PHP anyway.

By: David Jamal

David Jamal — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:25:13 +0000

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By: Sarah James

Sarah James — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:25:13 +0000

The company will provide you with linux or windows. You don’t have to do anything yourself. That’s the best part haha.
http://www.infinitelyvirtual.com

By: Nightbird

Nightbird — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:25:13 +0000

Yes, you are right. Based on the programming language and any software you want to use, you might want to choose either windows or linux hosting. PHP runs on both Linux as well as Windows and ASP.net runs on Windows. So if you want to use both eventually, then you might want to go for Windows hosting.

Generally (not always), Windows hosting is slightly costlier than Linux hosting. That is because the host doesn’t have to pay for Linux (its free) but he has to pay to get Windows licenses to install on the hosting server, so they increase the cost of Windows hosting to cover for that cost. However, some hosts, in order to get an edge over others don’t charge you more for Windows hosting and the host you would have contacted would be in the same league.

The hosting environment is completely independent of what you have on your computer. You can have any OS and that doesn’t matter. Only the scripting language + software (discussed above) matters. In order to see a full process of how to go about hosting your website, read this: http://umakeawebsite.com/

Hope that helps.