Windows Web Site Hosting  

Windows is Microsoft’s flagship operating system and anyone who has used a PC has probably already encountered one its desktop incarnations, Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and the soon to be released Windows Vista. Windows also comes in a Server version, the current version being Windows 2003 Server. Unlike Linux, Windows is a paid for Operating System, this means that Windows hosting plans tend to cost a little more than comparable Linux plans.

Linux Web Site Hosting           

Dedicated Linux web site hosting is where a company places it servers at an offsite secure data center to be managed by another company. It is referred to as Linux web site hosting because the operating system on these servers is Linux. Linux Web Site Hosting Providers Linux web site hosting is available from a wide spectrum of hosting providers. At one end of the spectrum some Linux web site hosting providers focus on low price with minimal services while at the other end are Linux web site hosting providers that offer a complete turn-key solution including management and monitoring of the hardware and software. What Linux web site hosting provider is right for you will depend on whether you can tolerate downtime on your servers and whether your internal IT resources are best used maintaining the system or on high value added tasks. Linux Web Site Hosting Benefits For most companies outsourcing their Linux web site hosting needs is an economic decision as the hosting provider supports multiple customers so they are less expensive than doing it internally and they have the redundant power, Internet and climate control capabilities to prevent costly downtime.

Microsoft SQL Server Hosting

Microsoft SQL server is a database software program that supports the Structured Query Language (SQL) , but adds its own unique extensions to create a unique SQL server language. Microsoft SQL server is used with the Windows operating system. Microsoft SQL Server Support The Internet has substantially increased the demand for Microsoft SQL server as more companies look to make their databases available to customers, vendors and employees. This also requires that the Microsoft SQL server be available 24/7 so the choice of Microsoft SQL server hosting or remote management provider is critical as well. Unfortunately trying to find a Microsoft SQL server provider that is qualified is difficult.

MySQL Hosting

MySQL is a database software program that supports the Structured Query Language (SQL) , but adds its own unique extensions to create a unique SQL server language. MySQL is typically used with Linux or UNIX operating systems. MySQL hosting is where a database server that uses MySQL is located off site at a hosting company. The hosting company provides access to the Internet and leases the use of the MySQL server. The Internet has substantially increased the demand for MySQL hosting as more companies look to make their databases available to customers, vendors and employees. This also requires that the MySQL server be available 24/7 so the choice of MySQL hosting provider is critical as well. Unfortunately trying to find a MySQL hosting provider that is qualified is difficult.

PostgreSQL Hosting

PostgreSQL is a database software program that supports the Structured Query Language (SQL) , but adds its own unique extensions to create a unique SQL server language. PostgreSQL is typically used with Linux or UNIX operating systems. PostgreSQL hosting is where a database server that uses PostgreSQL is located off site at a hosting company. The hosting company provides access to the Internet and leases the use of the PostgreSQL server.

Windows or Linux Web Site Hosting ?

Windows as a hosting platform has at least one big advantage: full use of ASP and ASP.NET. If your plan to use ASP because your employees know ASP or because it does a better job for your specific application, Windows hosting is the best choice right now. Good thing is that PHP is not confined to Linux and it works quite well on Windows. If, at a later time, you decide to use PHP for certain things, you can do so without much worry, provided that your host has PHP on that server, of course.

Back to Linux - while it is not yet able to take full advantage of ASP, it is a very popular choice as an operating system for web servers. It is widely acclaimed for its stability and that has to count for something. While Windows’ instability, although it might be somewhat anecdotal, is a subject that is often discussed, Linux’s stability is almost undisputed.

The decision of going for Windows hosting or Linux hosting should be based on actual needs, not myths. More often than not it should be based on the knowledge that you and/or your staff/business partners/friends have, on the things that you plan do to with your website or on the things you’d prefer to learn. Basic, static web pages are written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which the browser interprets into the web pages as we see them, containing text, tables, images and so on.

Pure HTML pages can be hosted on any type of web server, regardless of the operating system. Dynamic, interactive web pages however, are a different kind of beast and they require powerful programming languages. Now, don’t confuse dynamic with animated. There may be animated objects such as gifs on the web pages, but that doesn’t make them dynamic. Dynamic pages are those of a forum, of a shopping cart etc. where you send information to the server and the server will store it and do things differently, in accordance with that information. Some such programming languages are Perl, PHP, ASP, Python, Java etc. PHP and ASP are special with respect to this article due to their popularity and more. PHP is open source and free, while ASP is a Microsoft product. Full use of ASP functions/capabilities on other operating systems besides Windows is not available yet. One cross-platform ASP attempt is Sun Java System Active Server Pages. Another attempt is Apache-asp.org. Because Apache is the preferred web server for Linux, Apache-ASP makes a lot of sense. 

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