Windows or Linux for Web Hosting
An important web hosting question is which operating system (os) should I use? The two main choices are Windows (Server 2003) or Linux (RedHat). Each have advantages and disadvantages. One thing you can do in windows that you can’t in linux is run .asp/.NET applications. These types of applications/web sites are common in business/industry. Linux has a lot of advantages for blogging and other application hosting web sites. There are a lot of cool things that can be done on wordpress when on a Linux server (relating to search engine optimization) that are much more difficult to do on Windows. I will discuss this in a later post.
One cool feature of Windows Server 2003 for web hosting that cause me too choose it over Linux was remote desktop connection (RDC). RDC allows me to directly connect to the computer, and use it as if I was sitting right in front of it. I think this made it much easier for me to learn how to use the server and learn about web hosting/server administration.
Windows Servers run something called IIS - this is something that linux servers don’t have. Windows servers can do everything linux servers can (Apache) + IIS stuff. Linux servers can onl do Apache stuff.
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November 11th, 2007 - Posted in Web Hosting | |
