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Windows Hosting/Linux Hosting
20-09-2009 4:22 PM
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OK, ASP, can it do anything that cannot be done using PHP/MySQL etc? Is there any other reason to chose Windows hosting?
I personally can think of lots of reasons not to:
It costs about twice as much.
Windows is much more resource hungry requiring higher hardware specification for the same performance. Lets face it Windows servers have a graphical desktop that is not optional on a machine that likely does not even have a monitor attached!
Windows is less secure/prone to viruses etc.
Windows is less stable.
Windows needs restarted after just about every update.
Why do I always see hosting suppliers advertising Windows hosting like it is better lhan Linux hosting? What am I missing? Why would anyone want it?
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21-09-2009 8:00 PM
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If you were offered a cheaper deal but it involved switching to FreeBSD, for example, what would you do?
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21-09-2009 10:24 PM
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I had a friend who moved a site to different host and went from Windows to Linux, and some pages weren't accessible and some images weren't showing, turns out, his page links and images, needed to be updated to match the exact file names. Linux is case sensitive whereas windows ignores uppercase and lowercase differences in files, so displayed them no bother. It took me a few hours to match up his code to file names, but after it was done, he had no problems with his site on Linux, I got the impression that sloppy coders prefer windows as it is more forgiving. lol
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22-09-2009 11:52 AM
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23-09-2009 5:02 PM
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I use Linux / Apache as it just runs better overall. although a friend of mines just given me 10gb of free webspace with unlimited bandwidth which im going to start using as my personal host for my new business
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23-09-2009 6:29 PM
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24-09-2009 1:20 PM
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24-09-2009 2:26 PM
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24-09-2009 3:04 PM
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24-09-2009 6:42 PM
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25-09-2009 2:16 PM
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25-09-2009 3:58 PM
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To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
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25-09-2009 4:19 PM
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