Comments on: Linus Vs Windows (web Hosts)?

By: DJ_Bayle

DJ_Bayle — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:24:57 +0000

yeah for the most part they are the same. If you notice in frontpage they have sharepoiint extensions etc, that would require windows extensions to use those features.

By: sevcenko

sevcenko — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:57:53 +0000

The platform (windows or linux) only usually effects the server side programming language you can use. e.g. ASP, PHP, CGI, etc.
Having said that you can get many of them on both platforms.
The only really big issue is if scalbility and cost are important. It can be more costly to have dedicated windows servers however if you look at a hosting provider like fasthosts you’ll see the prices are fairly comparable.

By: mal

mal — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:03:41 +0000

It’s not much of a difference for the client (for you) but the differences are visible for a pro. There are some services that switch between windows and linux platforms instantly so you can’t “feel” the difference… a professional service is :http://professional.1mlmwebhosting.biz , and a free one: http://www.bravenet.com/cserv.php?pid=4&…

By: Babumosh

Babumosh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:28 +0000

I think for the most part it does not really matter. Sometimes if you are using MS Frontpage to create the web pages then Linux may not support some of the Frontpage features. But other than that it does not make much of a difference. If you do encounter a point where you need to use one or the other for a specific purpose the host service should let you switch over.