Firstly:
One misconception we hear about more and more is that people think you have to have to be running a Linux operating system on your computer to be able to host a website on a Linux server. This is not the case, it is irrelevant which operating system you are using on your computer.So why choose Linux (Apache):
- The main advantage of a Linux server is that it is open source. This means that these servers are far more cost effective than Microsoft servers.
- Generally processes run faster on a linux server so load times are reduced.
- Search Engine Optimisation loves Linux, due to you having more control over your server you gain gain a huge amount of assets when interacting with search engines and their robots.
- Linux servers have an incredible record of reliability and speed and are least likely to crash as often as Microsoft IIS servers.
- Linux supports a wide range of languages and databses such as PHP, Perl, PostGre, MySQL, PostgreSQL and many others which makes these servers extremely scalable.
- One of the biggest advantages of using a Windows server is that they can run Microsoft technologies such as Access and MS SQL databases.
- Microsoft's programming environments such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and Visual Basic Scripts can be used without any extra modules Linux would need like Modmono, Chilisoft or Apache::ASP
- Microsoft servers are more scalable than Linux servers and support everything Linux support as well as its own Microsoft services.
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