Should You Go With Windows Based Domain Hosting?

As a domain hosting reseller, possibly one of the most important decisions you will have to make is whether to go with a Linux based or a Windows based web-hosting service. Linux and Windows 2000 are the two most popular options for web hosting platforms along with their respective related platforms (Unix hosting for Linux and Windows NT for Windows 2000). These two platforms are obviously integral to the tasks that are typically required from web servers. You can of course base your decision largely on your own personal preferences and in truth you do not necessarily have to have a thorough knowledge of both platforms in order to make your decision as both platforms have a long and tried track record of performance and reliability. As in most areas of technology however, the better informed you are the better able you are to make an educated choice about the solution that will best suit your particular set of needs and requirements.

Contrary to what you may have expected, just because you are currently running a Windows-based desktop PC now, it does not necessarily follow that you have to go with a Windows-based web hosting platform. The inverse is also true; just because you are running Linux right now, you do not necessarily have to switch over to a Linux based web-hosting platform. The fact of the matter is, your choice in the operating system which you use in your desktop machine has very little-if anything at all-to do with the web hosting platform that you ultimately decide to go with. Far more important is the extent of your knowledge regarding FTP (or File Transfer Protocol) or web publishing software. If you have a solid grounding in these two areas, you can go with either type of operating system and still expect to achieve satisfactory results.

Another important factor to consider when choosing between these two web-hosting platforms is how you intend your web site to function and what services you are planning to offer your clients. Taking stock of this important consideration will help you narrow down your choices further and hopefully make it clearer to you which web hosting platform you should go with.

Interactive web sites are fast becoming a popular draw and these types of web sites typically rely on ASP, PHP, or Perl type languages, languages which are more appropriate for the Linux platform, so if you intend to offer interactivity on your web sites, you should take this into consideration.

Now the question of reliability and stability is bound to come up sooner or later and it is best to address this issue early on in your planning stages. While it is true that Linux has been the overwhelmingly popular choice when it comes to web hosting software, Windows is no slouch by any means and many web sites have been and continue to be run based on the Windows platform. And of course if the software that you intend to use is mostly Microsoft based, then a Windows platform is the obvious choice.

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