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Finally, there is Linux. Linux website hosting is a derivative of UNIX which is much more flexible than its predecessor. It is based on the same basic architecture, and tends to be very stable and secure. Linux can be run on a large variety of hardware, and is constantly being developed and improved. There are many distributions available, most of which can be freely downloaded from the Internet at no charge. PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML, is currently best suited for the Linux platform.


So the question remains Linux or Windows?

This depends completely on the requirements of your website, and the skill-set of your development team.

If Linux website hosting is the most common operating platform used for online servers, there must be a good reason for this. The Linux operating system is a combination of the power and reliability of the UNIX operating system, and the user-friendly nature of an operating system such as Windows or Macintosh.

UNIX is one of the most powerful operating systems in existence, but it is a very difficult one to use and requires extended training, unlike Windows or Macintosh which are relatively simple operating systems. Linux website hosting combines the power of UNIX with the easy to use Windows style operating system to create a powerful, reliable operating system that does not require extensive technical training just to be able to utilize.

Linux website hosting has a 99.9% reliability rate, which means that it almost never crashes and will not result in downtime for the web sites being hosted on its server.

The Linux platform has great manipulability, unlike Windows. This means that web sites hosted on Linux can very easily be transferred to Windows servers, although the reverse is not always the case. Windows is a very self-centered operating system, and it is not designed to be able to transfer easily between other operating systems.

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