hosting..linux? windows?

[macneilslt]

Hey, What is the difference between linux and windows hosting plans? does it really matter wich one you choose?

[porpous2]

linux generally less expenive with php and windows generally more expensive with .asp. (im not great with this stuff so i mgiht be wrong).

[Hans Kilian]

Generally Windows hosts will use Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) as the webserver. The server-side programming language of choice will be ASP and your database will be Access.

On Linux, the webserver will probably be Apache, the server-side programming language will be PHP and the database MySQL.

In general... You can run Apache, PHP and MySQL on Windows if you want.

A Linux host is probably more likely to allow you shell access as well, which will allow you to run programs automatically at certain times of the day via a program called cron.

Personally, I'd go with Linux. But that's probably just bacause I know that setup better...

[Jamie Barton]

Linux is just the best, it offers so much more new and up to date softwares, eg: Cpanel & WebHost Manager.

You can look at some of the plans on my host too ;) http://www.spotwebsolutions.com

I hope you find something that interests you ;)


Regards
Jamie

[macneilslt]

http://www.datacities.com/hostingplans.html

this is what i'm looking at, does it seem alright?

i'm currently using synchosting, but theres been a lot of down time, and its been down for the last 8 hours :( , so i need something new..this isn't working out..