Shared Hosting is a
type of web hosting mainly taken by individuals or small website owners,
requires very less web space and bandwidth to run their website on www.
There are mainly two types of shared hosting provided by web
hosting companies on the basis of operating system used - Linux and Windows Shared
Hosting. Both Operating system has their specific features in terms of
programming language support, cost, security etc. Choose one out if them is all
depends on the development language used for your website.
When it is about language support, windows is more preferred
then Linux as Windows support many languages like HTML, POP3, MSSQL, ASP, .NET
and MYSQL. Linux uses a MySQL database.
As Linux is a open source operating system, you can be offered
many applications such as forums, blogs and more by your web hosting provider
and in Windows you need to pay for all that applications.
Apart from that, Linux is considered as more stable and
secure system, provide higher uptime as compared to windows as it can handle many
process at the same time. It is also easy to use over windows if you are not a
technical person.
If it comes to cost Linux is more cheaper then Windows as it
is open source system but in case of windows you need to pay to get its
licensed version.
These all are the differences between Linux and Windows that
can help you to choose one best Linux Shared Hosting
or Windows Shared Hosting as per your website needs or requirements.
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