What's the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting.?

I just want to know what it means so I don't waste my money on the wrong thing.

What's the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting.?
Nothing really, except you can't host IIS (ASP, ASP.net) on Non-Windows computers (apache discontinued support).





The best webhosts (longest running without any downtime) are actually using BSD. Surprisingly Win2k3 is going strong too.


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Reply:All websites today currently run on either a Windows web server or a Linux-based server. The vast majority of websites run on a Linux-based platform as Linux has a strong reputation for security and web server performance. With standard (static) HTML-based websites, the web hosting platform doesn't make much difference. When it does make a difference, however, is when the website uses a dynamic scripting technology such as ASP (A Microsoft based technology), or PHP / PERL (Linux based technologies). A Windows-based hosting solution will run a Microsoft Windows server with IIS (Internet Information Server), and is necessary to run an ASP / ASP.NET scripted website. A Linux-based platform is typically used for PHP, Perl, and most other types of websites. Basically, unless your website uses ASP (pages ending in the .asp extention), Windows hosting is not neccessary.





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Good Luck!
Reply:linux doesn't support asp and stuff. But linux is way more secured than a windows server and widely used on the net. If you're looking for linux hosting at cheap rates. go for mydosty.com. their rates are 99 cent/mo
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Reply:Get linux hosting. The only difference is windows runs not as well, cost more, and you can run ASP and some other windows prog stuff you prob don't need.