What’s the difference between Linux hosting and Microsoft hosting?

December 28th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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argh.pirate asked:


I’m starting a website with 1&1 and their hosting plans have either Linux hosting or Microsoft hosting. Does it matter what OS I’m using or is this how the server runs? What are the differences?

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  1. Comment by Jamie on 31 December 2008:

    I believe that they probably have servers running both Windows and Linux, so I would suggest you look into what the differences are.

    Good luck and I hope I helped you!

  2. Comment by Chris on 2 January 2009:

    Linux is a more secure, reliable platform for hosting websites from little 1-pagers to full-blown ecommerce web sites.

    They are far less likely to be hacked.

    Go this route.

  3. Comment by Andres Jabois on 3 January 2009:

    Linux hosting is generally more secure, the only “real” differences is that Microsoft Hosting can run “Frontpage Extensions”, but if you are using “Normal” web editors (not Frontpage of microsoft ones for example) there is absolutely no difference … Linux just is smoother and more reliable.

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