Which One Is Better Linux Or Window Hosting?

When choosing which type of hosting must be purchased to host an application, it is necessary to be clear about the real needs of the application in order to make the right decision then describes some of the things that must be consider before purchasing a hosting.

Differences

On the various differences between hosting on Windows and Linux hosting on much to say, but within the most salient differences are:

The Linux hostings are mostly GPL, ie do not pay license and therefore is cheaper than an equivalent in Windows.

But he explained that although it seems that everything is free on Linux is not entirely true, we need a control panel for hosting by which the supplier has to pay. But equally there are panels open source, free to work as well in addition to cPanel, some examples are the Webmin and Baifo.

A Linux hosting using Apache and a Windows IIS. According to Netcraft, Apache is currently the market leader, is hosting the domains used in more uptime.

Apache is known for its security, but also IIS version 6, and in fact has never been “rooted” (hackeadada as root) although certain modules if IIS and ASP.NET. IIS is one of the safest web servers but does not reach the level of Apache although this has also had security flaws, like php.

At this point one could say that each of the respective operating systems and languages have multiple vulnerabilities and the study of OH Alhazmi and Y.K. Malaiya, “Measuring and Enhancing Prediction Capabilities of Vulnerabilities Discovery Models for Apache and IIS HTTP Servers”, predicts that more vulnerabilities were found in Apache IIS in the future. Although it is said that the reason to find more vulnerabilities in Apache IIS that it is because little commercial use of it, most Windows servers require nearly twice the processor and memory to process the same amount of information on Linux servers , hence it is a standard for Linux servers. Less hardware to the same, less costs. The advantage of Windows is that support services are cheaper and a Linux system administrator usually receives much more than Windows. They are more bugs in a system or vulnerabilities are detected is not bad. On the contrary, it means that each bug is found by plugging a new bug or security hole.

As many people can use php on a Windows hosting, but not ASP.NET on a Linux hosting, but many more who say this is false, simply MONO be installed asp.net applications will run on Linux without any objections, but many others say that these applications if they run but works just as well as Windows.

Finally we found that each of these operating systems offer a good service, each have advantages, both have been presented and also have multiple quantities of vulnerabilities, some already solved and other still undiscovered, giving the user the assurance that they are problems have resulted, just as the decision to use Linux hosting or Windows hosting should be based on the real needs of the project is developing.

My personal opinion is that unless an application to be exclusive and mandatory work on Windows, for whatever reason, one should choose Linux for the hosting.