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some body tell me about windows shared hosting benefits and what difference between linux and windows.help me .
thanks and advanced.

hi

some body tell me those compaies provides windows shared hosting and linux hosting.

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Well, both Linux and Windows have their own benefits and features which can not be compared to one an other.

Choice of Operating system depends upon your requirements. E.g If you are looking to develop your web is .Net and MS SQL, then of course the only choice you have is Windows.

Most reliable and big companies offer PHP,MySQL on Windows too but if you planning either to use them or just HTML, then you should opt for Linux OS at Server end. Even if your intentions are to use emails only, then too go for Linux.

OS at server does not mean that must have the same system at your local computer. Means you can manage your account hosted at Linux from your any computer connected with Internet.

The only difference between Linux and Windows is cost factor, that's it. In addition you can host you PHP and MySQL on windows as well. Following key features are usually included with windows shared hosting package.

* Windows 2008 Standard
* IIS 7, FrontPage Extensions
* ASP, ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0
* Coldfusion (Optional)
* PHP 5.2.6 / MySQL 5.0.51
* GD Library 2.0.33
* SSI, CGI-BIN, PHP, Perl, Python
* MS SQL 2005 Enterprise
* MS ACCESS / ODBC Support
* DSN Connection String

Well, both Linux and Windows have their own benefits and features which can not be compared to one an other.


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If you are familiar with the Windows operating system, having a Windows based server will make the learning process much easier. You won’t have to worry about learning a new language just to maintain your website. For beginners, this is a definite plus.

Windows server, except for all the popular solutions like php and mysql is able to handle MS technologies, which are unable for linux hosting.

Windows server is best suited for you if you have the requirement of MSSQL database, ASP.NET, MS ACCESS etc

Big difference. depends the technologies you're going to use, if you use microsoft technologies then windows is the right choice. for php and other languages, linux is the best.

Windows Hosting
Windows, a Operating system introduced by Microsoft used by different users around the globe. Windows OS has different flavors like Windows 2008 Standard Edition, Express Edition, Enterprise Edition, Web Edition. The applications compatible with Windows OS are asp, asp.net, ColdFusion. It uses a MS-SQL database which again has different flavors like SQL Standard Edition, Experss Edition, Enterprise Edition, Web Edition. Plesk and DotNetPanel control panels supported on Windows OS.

Linux Hosting
Generally Linux is very secured and cheap Operating system provided by different hosting providers. It supports a wide range of applications like PHP, Perl and has a MY-SQL database. There are different flavors of Linux OS present in market like Cent OS, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and RHEL. The control panel provided with Linux is Cpanel which is compatible with some flavors like Cent OS and Fedora. Cpanel control panel is a very fast control panel and has a very simple user interface, so even a new user can use it easily.

Linux hosting based on c-panel
and window hosting based upon plesk