Major Advantage of Linux Hosting
When you purchase web hosting service, there are many factors you need to take into consideration. Other than the loading speed of site, its price, uptime, bandwidth, control panel and other features the new web host should provide. At the same time, you will meet another peoplem: Windows hosting or Linux hosting, which is a better choice? Through this article, I will show you some major adcantages of Linux hosting:
Most widely used
Compared to Windows web hosting, it is a fact that Linux based web hosting is most widely used indeed.
Lower costs
linux OS comes free of cost. Also, it has fully fledged server, and desk top applications that come free with the OS. These server applications, such as FTP and DNS Server, are also very stable.
Scalability
A website designed for compatibility with a Linux based web server meets the scalability requirement easily without making any site wide design changes.
More stable
Linux OS is more robust ans stable than Windows OS. A website hosted on a Linux operating system will have very high up-time.
Easy to move
A website designed to host on a Linux server can be hosted on a Windows server easily, where as the reverse is not always true. Yes, if you are using Linux hosting, here is another good news for you: you can change your web hosting provider easily.