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Commonly used operating system in web hosting – Windows & UNIX Web Hosting
Windows, Dos, UNIX and Linux all of these are in fact different systems of computer. Normally Windows Unix and Linux are used in web hosting and web hosts use these systems on their special purpose computers, that are normally larger than personal computers and are called web servers to host websites. As all of us know that a computer is nothing without an operating system so Windows and UNIX are the operating system that are most commonly used in web site hosting.

Normally the most commonly used Windows is Windows NT or 2000. Microsoft charges great fees for their software. But the UNIX is an open source operating system and its original developers have given up the rights. Now anyone can use it, modify or do anything he wants, free of charge.

Differences between windows hosting providers and UNIX web hosting providers

So the major difference in these operating systems is that Windows Hosting Providers are more expensive than UNIX web hosting providers. This is because of the reason we have discussed earlier.

Secondly UNIX operating system is more reliable and robust than Windows Operating system. Most of the time you will face the freezing or hauting problems in Windows and the only solution is to restart it. But UNIX is much more stable, robust, time-tested, flexible platform for a web server.

Respective advantages of windows web hosting and UNIX web hosting

In spite of having some disadvantages Windows operating system has lots of advantages over UNIX. The most important thing is that it is easy to use and more user friendly. Moreover Windows require very little experience in web development to get advanced features working very quickly because of better graphical user interface (GUI). Windows support software such as FrontPage that is specially designed for the web developers to develop and create professional websites while using less time and efforts.

Windows operating system is compatible with Microsoft applications, and fully supports Microsoft Access, Microsoft FrontPage and MS SQL. Windows operating system also offer advance-programming environments and features such as Active Server Pages (ASP), the ASP.NET framework, Visual Basic Scripts, MS Index Server, Macromedia's and Cold Fusion.

UNIX supports FrontPage, Real Audio/Video, Flash, Shockwave, Perl, Cgi Scripts, PHP, Web-Based Control System, SSH, MySQL, Anonymous FTP, Web Site Graphical Statistics, Web-Based Email System, Miva/XML, Cold Fusion Perl, JAVA, PHP, C, C++, Shell Access and other wide variety of feature like Telnet and SSH that provides lots of flexibility and freedom in managing file and directories.

So which one is better Windows hosting or UNIX web hosting. Its all depends on your needs and resources. No matter what operating system you are using in your PC, choose that hosting plan that can fulfill your needs in better way.