Linux or Windows Hosting ?

I prefer linux hosting.Its cheaper and good.

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A lot of research has been done comparing Linux and Windows (mostly sponsored by Microsoft)))) saying that Windows is cost-effective and robust as Linux, but still Linux is more widely used and I think it's wise of hosting companies to offer both Linux and Windows either on shared plans or VPS, say as GlobalTap.com do on virtual private plans.

Windows vs. Linux Hosting Services

By Vince Barnes

What are your considerations concerning
the Operating System your potential hosting service uses?

If you happen to be running your own server system, you would not have to consider what operating system to use for hosting your websites. That decision would already have been made. Part of that decision making process may, however, have involved consideration of the features that would be available to you for your websites. Other considerations may have involved other system features as well as cost, ease and convenience. Those aspects which concern your websites are the same operating system considerations to be born in mind when selecting a hosting service for your sites. Here we take a look at some of those details to help you with that decision making process.

The vast majority of hosting services being offered today are based either on Windows or Linux. There are a few other Unix variants in use in hosting companies, but for the most part the features offered to the guest website are so similar that they can be thought of as the same. For the purposes of this discussion, "Unix" systems will be lumped together and a Linux model will be considered. There may also be hosting services based on another operating system altogether, but these are few and far between. For those systems, you would have to compare their feature sets to those discussed here.

Second to the operating system, the most important influence on the features that will be available to you will be the Web Server system in use. On Linux systems, the Web Server offered is almost always the Apache server. On Windows it's the Internet Information Server (now "Service"), IIS. Apache is also available for Windows systems, but is not very frequently used by hosting companies using the Windows platform. Again, there are other Web Servers in use but the great majority of hosting companies use one of these two.