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Why Linux Hosting is gaining more presence than Windows Any person interested in publishing any data on the Internet requires Web
Hosting. Web hosting has been around for several years now and has evolved
from simple HTML pages hosting, small simple sites with a few images into
full blown web based hosted applications where end users can visit a site,
interact with the web site owner and even purchase goods and services all
over the internet.
The use of Internet as a medium for integrating business across the globe
with the help of Web Based software applications has produced wide range of
web based technologies like ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP and others. This choice
has forced various options for web hosting now as HTML based sites work
equally well on both Linux and Windows platforms.
Web hosting platforms vary from different types of operating systems.
Microsoft Windows Server and Redhat Linux are just two examples and probably
the most well known web hosting platforms. So, what is Windows or Linux web
hosting and what are the advantages and disadvantages to hosting your web
site on either Server. And why now Linux is gaining more popularity. Well,
that's just the answer isn't it ?
Linux platform has been developed by Community based efforts and it has
been rendered for professional use with the efforts of many IT companies
like Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake and like. This background of Community
development and open source nature of Linux Server and backup of
professional IT companies has made Linux platform more powerful, inexpensive
and secured.
The cost effectiveness in this competitive era is a major boost that the
companies required without compromising on the quality and security of the
product. Apart from ASP, ASP.NET, all other major web based technologies
work well with Linux. The virtually free distribution of PHP, MySQL, PERL
has reduced the costs of the website hosting tremendously on Linux Server.
At Sakshay, we provide both kind of hosting services but the advice to
companies requiring Hosting for HTML based websites, small applications like
Recipe site is to use Linux Hosting.
The menace of viruses, spamming and hacking is also quite less with Linux
Hosting. Firstly, this is due to the robust architecture of Linux Server and
Secondly, due to many cost effective softwares available for protection on
Linux Platform.
The following are the advantages of using Linux based web server compared
to Windows based web server :
Stable and Robust: Linux/Unix operating systems has traditionally been
believed to be very stable and robust. A web site housed on a Linux
operating system will have very high up-time (of the order of 99.9%). Of
course, other factors such as power supply, network admin skills, and
network load etc. also matter when it comes to maintaining the system
uptime.
Low cost of ownership: The Linux OS comes free of cost (or at very
insignificant cost, usually cost of distribution). Also, it has full fledged
server, and desk top applications that comes free along with the OS. These
server applications (such as FTP, Web Server, DNS Server, File Server etc.)
being free, are also very stable.
User Friendly : When it comes to web hosting, it is easy to host on Linux
web servers. The process of uploading and hosting is almost same for both
Linux and Windows web servers. If you want to use a Windows based tool such
as Front Page for uploading a web site on to a Linux based web server, make
sure that the Front Page extensions are enabled. This is only required if
you are uploading using HTTP feature (http://www.yourwebsite.com)
of Front Page. Front Page also makes it possible to upload a web site using
FTP. You need to select ftp://www.yourwebsite.com for up loading using front
page FTP option. Note that if you select ";Front Page Extensions"; during
web site design, you must enable Front Page extensions on a Linux web server
also. These days, all Linux web servers are coming with installable Front
Page extensions, and this should pose no problem for hosting on a Linux
platform. You can use almost all types of file extensions (or scripts) when
using Linux web server. Commonly, the following extensions are supported: .cgi,
.html, .htm, .pl, .php, .shtml, .xml, and others. Basically it means that
you can host web sites that use different types of server side scripts
including .cgi, .pl, .php, and .asp (with plug-in).
Easy to move between hosts : A web site designed to be hosted on a Linux
based web server can be hosted on a Windows web server easily, where as the
reverse is not always true.
Most widely used : Linux/Unix based web hosting is most widely used
compared to Windows based web hosting.
Scalability : Scalability and future expansion are other major criteria
to consider while hosting an application. A web site is dynamic. Usually, a
web site starts with a few pages of html and grows over a period of time to
suit the customers requirements. It is preferable to design a web site
keeping this requirements in mind. A web site designed for compatibility
with a Linux/Unix based web server meets the scalability requirement easily
without making any site wide design changes.
Self Management of your website on a Linux Web Hosting Plan with Sakshay
hosting is made very easy with our Implementation of the Award Winning
Control Panel software by Sw-Soft called Plesk. Plesk is a web based
interface to your Linux web hosting account that allows you to create e-mail
addresses and mailboxes, view your web site traffic statistics, set
permissions on your HTML, PHP pages, MySQL... and more. We also provide
Windows Hosting with Plesk Panel.
So, all kudos to Linux and open source technologies for making the
technology affordable and within the reach of common man. More Articles-
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About the Author
Dr Ravi Chamria is the CEO, Sakshay Infosystems Pvt Ltd. He can be
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