what’s the difference between Hosting my site on a linux server or windows server?

December 17th, 2009 by Adam

Krizs asked:

I have a small site hosted on Godaddy Linux but I doubt if it has the negative effect that the windows hosting?

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7 Responses to “what’s the difference between Hosting my site on a linux server or windows server?”

on 18 Dec 2009 at 8:53 pm akshat86

not much difference.. and no a linux server has no side effect on hosting..
on 19 Dec 2009 at 3:41 am Razor's edge

honestly it should work either way, unless you have some really shifty software with which you made the site
on 19 Dec 2009 at 3:08 pm Colinc

Linux servers are often faster and more reliable. The majority of internet servers are running Apache, regardless of OS, and this was primarily developed for Unix based systems.
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on 22 Dec 2009 at 9:39 am rasalhague_ophiuchus

It depends on what programming language you’re using.

Usually Windows Hosting has IIS as middleware, Linux Apache. Both can run for instance PHP, but if you use PHP always buy Linux hosting. It’s cheaper and you won’t have to call on the hosting provider as much to fix rights problems. For HTML/CSS it’s all no problem.
on 24 Dec 2009 at 5:12 am LAMPP

They had said it all man… Linux is the word… for mission critical servers…
on 25 Dec 2009 at 1:22 am Travel Bug

Linux server is typically more stable and cost cheaper.
It come with more features.

Typically people choose Windows server when they need to run on script that can only support natively by Windows server, eg asp, aspx.

If you are hosting normal html page, go for Linux.
Linux also support the widely used script called php.

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