Windows Hosting

Hosting of web services that runs on the Windows operating system is called Windows hosting. Windows operating system developed by Microsoft is the most widely used OS across the globe. Windows is popular because of its user friendly graphical user interface (GUI). Also the web application development tools for Windows platform are growing fast in the web design marketplace.

Select Windows hosting if: 

You are using ASP (Active Server Pages) as server scripting. ASP is a technology used in server to build websites. These are ASP scripts embedded HTML web pages stored on the Windows web server before the page is sent to the user. 

You wish to employ Microsoft SQL Server database, which is a RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). You can store large amounts of data on Microsoft SQL Server without affecting performance of your website. This is very useful function and critical for e-commerce web sites that need to store huge information.  

You plan to develop your web site using Microsoft Front Page.  

Advantages

• More compatible with Microsoft applications.
• Windows has more support options than UNIX.
• Administrators can use advanced features even if they don't have much experience.
• Supports Front Page, ASP, VB Script, Java, and .Net.
• Pearl, PHP, CGI, MS Access databases, and Macro media's Cold Fusion run well on Windows.
• Fully supports database technologies like Microsoft SQL, MYSQL and MS Access & Excel

Linux web hosting

Linux operating system allows its users with many user friendly and operational features. Minimum downtime and stability are the two major features of Linux Hosting. It's much more flexible as websites hosted on the Linux Hosting sever can be changed

Linux hosting is hosting your websites on the servers operated by the Linux operating systems (OS). Linux operating system allows its users with many user friendly and operational features. Minimum downtime and stability are the two major features of Linux Hosting. It's much more flexible as websites hosted on the Linux Hosting sever can be changed easily to the Windows web server.  

Advantages :

• Much more stable
• Costs Less
• Persistent high performance on servers
• Greater flexibility
• Supports true multi-tasking