Choosing between Windows and Linux Hosting
                     Choosing between Windows and Linux Hosting
David Barton
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While shopping for website hosting, people typically come across many plans 
that differ in operating system, functionality, price, database formats etc. Well, 
for a non-technical person the options look very confusing unless the person has 
prior experience of using one of these services before. 
Generally, providers offer both Linux and Windows hosting as a part of their 
package, differing in technical specifications and prices. In fact, many get 
confused if the operating system of the hosting platform really matters when 
designing and publishing the website. Before discussing the differences between 
 these two, let us first see the things that they have in common.
Common features
When it comes to data management both have similar approach, but only differ in 
technologies. MySQL was supported only by Linux before, but today even the 
Windows server has the flexibility to process these files. Both these operating 
systems support the HTML and javascript file types, but differ in files 
n ames.Linux files are strictly case sensitive whereas Windows files can have both 
upper and lower case extensions. When it comes to file management, both 
support FTP server for transferring the files. There is a misconception among 
people that Linux is more secure than its counterpart, but to be truthful both 
provide the same level of security for the data.
How to choose the right hosting
Most of us think that the operating system that we are using on our PCS should be 
in sync with the hosting platform to make the web host running. It is absolutely 
irrelevant whether we are using Windows, Linux, Mac or others because the OS 
provided by web host and the OS that we are running on our personal computers 
are entirely different things. 
 
No matter what operating system we are working on, the user interface or the web 
editor provided by the hosting service to create the applications will not be 
connected to your computer OS. What really matters depends on what kind of 
technologies your website is mostly depending on – either microsoft technologies 
 that requires Windows hosting or PHP, Perl & MYSQL that needs Linux hosting.
Windows vs Linux hosting
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