Difference between Linux and Windows Hosting:
1. Server-side applications:
Certain server-side applications will require Windows hosting such as those written in:
*** .NET. *** ASP *** ASP.NET *** MS SQL *** PHP *** MySQL *** Visual Basic development *** MS Access
Applications that Windows does not support:
*** WordPress *** Python *** Perl *** CGI *** WYSIWYG
Web Programming Languages that both Linux and Windows support:
*** PHP *** MySQL (although MySQL is more commonly used on Linux)
2. Ease of use:
Accessing and managing your windows hosting server is quite easy. However, interacting directly with the Linux OS will require you to learn how to use the command line. Unless you have a Linux administrator to do this for you, learning to integrate multiple pieces of software via the command line can be a challenge for beginners. To combat this, you choose from many GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) such as cPanel to interact with the OS.
3. Control Panels:
Purchasers of Linux hosting packages can access the server through cPanel and WHM. Windows users will access their server through a control Panel known as Plesk.
4. Cost:
Being an open-source platform, Linux is free of cost. Linux hosting offered by web hosting providers is therefore more affordable than Windows hosting.
There are areas, however, where both Linux and Windows servers are equally matched, namely:
*** Speed *** Stability
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