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The most well known web hosting services among users are the Windows Web-host services and Unix/Linux Web-host services. Web hosting allows users and organizations to give the World Wide Web popularity to their websites. We need to choose managed hosting facilities according to the web scripting contents we desired like Blogs, Forums and E-Commerce web applications etc.

The question which webhosting service is the best to choose depends on following aspects. Whenever any website is launched on a win-based Server it is referred to as Windows Hosting. This kind of a host is preferable for websites that make use of particular applications e. G., ASP.NET, ASP, FrontPage, MSSQL, MS Access, Streaming Media, Expression Web or any other Microsoft proprietary technologies.

Unix is renown for its reliability, user friendly environment and is mostly appropriate for Network Servers. Due to the Network Server Platform and consistency, this environment has become more acceptable as compared to other machine platforms. Usually, scripted based applications like PHP or MySQL run with Unix-based web hosting. Unix-based operating systems are also said to be less susceptible to viruses and other malware. Most of the types of viruses that affect Windows workstations have little effect on Unix-based workstations.

The Unix OS (and its derivatives) is an unlock sourced proposal and its web hording is more affordable with little or no concerning licensing fees. In contrast, leading companies finds it expensive to get licenses to run on Win-based machines. And so, there exists a price disproportion in both these machines. Win-host services including software packages and products includes an associated licensing fee that leading company must pay.

The important point to note before you host a website, and something that many users seem not to understood, is that if one has say Windows on the computer, then they do not have to employ the same operating system for web-host services. There is no restriction in it i. E., operating system of web service account can be dissimilar to computers operating system. Like if a website contains some static contents i. E., HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) pages, then it can run on both hosting servers.

One important difference between the two platform files is that Unix files are case-sensitive while Windows-OS files are case insensitive. For example, on Unix server, www.yahoo.com/index.html and www.yahoo.com/Index.html are two distinct links. But domain name can be either lower or upper case. On other side on a later machine, index.html and Index.html both are considered one and the identical name.

Both the leading proposals have their own characteristics which made them distinctively popular at their ends and help in website development accordingly. But the Linux platform exhibits great number of PHP open source packages and softwares like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Zen Cart. At the level of operating system the performance of Linux is much efficient and better when we compare it to web services. Hence, developers find it flexible to develop their websites more easily and rapidly.








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