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Web site Hosting, Windows Server vs Linux Which is Better?

Feb 21st, 2012
by harry.
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Question by Steven L: Web site Hosting, Windows Server vs Linux Which is Better?

We currently have a hosting company that looks after our website, I have found out that they are running Windows based Server. My question is should a website provider/hosting really be running Windows server or do respectable Hosting companies run Linux. I just need information like the cons of having windows environment.

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Answer by russbellew
My website is hosted by Microsoft on Windows servers, but having administered many servers (Novell NetWare, OS/2, Unix, Windows NT4 thru Server 2003, Linux), Windows would be my last choice for most server functions.

Management likes Windows servers because they think that the graphical user interface will lower the cost of administrators, but total cost of ownership is greater for Windows servers (greater hardware requirements, less MTTF).

I had heavily used NetWare servers that would run without rebooting for 11 months, yet Windows NT4 nd 2000 servers that were less lightly loaded needed to be rebooted every week or two, or their processes would die or slow due to memory leaks. NetWare and Unix servers, though tricky to set up and tune, would run and run without attention.

Unix servers can execute PHP, which is a powerful server side scripting language. Windows web servers can’t run PHP.

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Whats the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting?

Feb 9th, 2012
by harry.
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Question by Abhi100: Whats the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting?

Heya Please tell em what the difference is between linux web hosting and windows web hosting. I made my site by dreamweaver does that affect either of the 2 i should choose please tell me thanx!

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Answer by joe.attaboy
Windows and Linux often use two different web server applications. Windows sites use the Windows IIS server, while nearly all Linux sites use Apache.

Linux sites focus on PHP, Perl and other open-source script languages for server side scripting. Windows-based sites use ,NET and ASP technologies. They might also offer support for PHP.

Linux sites offer MySQL as the database for backend content storage. Windows sites will probably offer SQL Server, though some offer the Windows versions of MySQL as well.

There shouldn’t be any difference between the two if you use strict web standards in your HTML. However, you need to be aware of the fact that, since Dreamweaver is a Windows-only product, it may insert some non-standard things into your HTML. Frontpage also does this.

As long as you stick to accepted web standards and don’t use any Windows-centric stuff in your site, you should have no problems with either one.

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Linux Common Network Utilities/Tools

Jan 28th, 2012
by harry.
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In this video I discuss some of the common network utilities used by system administrators. The tools discussed in this video are ping, telnet, netstat, nslookup, dig, traceroute, and whois. Follow me on twitter for updates on new videos. @frankperez87