What's the Difference Between Unix and Windows Web Hosting?

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Depending on which operating system to go with depends on your needs.

If you need to support Microsoft products such as ASP, MS Access, or VBScript, then Windows hosting would be better. Furthermore, if you are comfortable with IIS and do not have the time to understand how UNIX works, Windows hosting would again be a better choice.

There are some things to remember.

First of all, just because you use Windows at home does not mean you should use Windows hosting. The two are completely different, and having a Windows system at home will not affect your ability to communicate with a UNIX server.

Secondly, Linux is much more common with web hosts due to its superior stability and because it is free. Since it is free, Linux hosting is usually cheaper than Windows. Just because it's free does not mean it's not as good - Linux is an excellent product too.

[josephwaldman1984]

Windows web hosting runs on Microsoft IIS and Unix web hosting runs on Apache server. Unix web hosting is cheap compare to windows web hosting.
In unix, mysql database is free whereas in windows hosting, seperate charge is applied for any version of microsoft sql server database.

[John Peterr]

i really appreciate you efforts in giving us some useful insights about hosting, is there only price factor to be concerned Between Unix and Windows Web Hosting or there any other factors to be considered?

[vishal]

Windows webhosting is a Microsoft product ,Windows web hosting will run Microsoft software such as VBScript scripting languages and Microsoft Access databases.


unix hosting wiil not support these type of softwares

[beenverified123]

thank you so much for differentiate the difference between Linux and UNIX.

Regards

[Johny22]

Just because you use a windows desktop PC doesn’t mean you have to opt for Windows web hosting (and the reverse is true as well). The operating system you use on your desktop has little to do with your choice of web hosts. As long as you understand how to use your FTP or web publishing software, your can use either operating system.

But what is important is that you know what you want your website to do and what you want to offer on it. This is what will ultimately help determine the type of web hosting that will work best for you. As mentioned earlier, interactive websites usually rely on ASP, PHP, or Perl type languages.

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[carolsmith62]

For all intents and purposes they both accomplish the same task... that of serving your Web pages to the world. We prefer that our customers use our UNIX based web servers and as such, this is the default setting when a customer adds a domain name to their iSERVE account. We recommend that our customers only use a Microsoft® Web server if they specifically require Microsoft ASP® coding or Microsoft Access® Databases.

[Rosywin]

basically the difference is of ASP .net. windows gives you asp hostting unlike linux.

[keith12]

great explanation

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Both Linux/Unix and Windows can handle high traffic websites and add-ons such as chat rooms, email and website statistics with ease. The biggest differences are price and software compatibility. Because Windows must be purchased and licenses renewed continuously, Windows hosting plans are usually more expensive than Unix-based plans. Also Unix-based plans often come with free email, databases (MySQL), statistic, and community programs. While Windows plans come with Microsoft software (MS SQL, for example) that must be purchased by the hosting company.

[John Peterr]

you had given a brief description of What's the Difference Between Unix and Windows Web Hosting?

But my question is ...

what do you recommend for an online business makers?

Is it linux or windows hosting?

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[Amit1]

The difference between Windows server and Linux/UNIX is that Windows runs ASP and ASP.NET with Access or SQL Server databases where as Linux/UNIX servers usually runs CGI, PHP or JSP with MySQL or Oracle databases.

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