When it comes to web hosting we usually need to choose between Windows and Linux web hosting. In general the second is most used because of its ease of maintenance but still Windows based Web hosting is becoming increasingly widespread.
Maybe many of you feel that Windows web hosting can’t compete with Linux but I'll try to give you a few examples will convince you of the impressive capabilities of the Windows operating system performance for a web hosting plan.
User-friendly
I do not need to remember you the reputation that Microsoft have, so I'll just go straight to what interests you.
Many of us are familiar with Microsoft products and therefore a web host that has the Windows operating system is more appropriate for many of us.In the same time we can benefit from features such as ASP and FrontPage, which is very useful to if we want to create good web pages.With ASP we can create web pages and is geared more towards experienced programmers while FrontPage is very useful for beginners.
Efficiency
Web hosts generally use Windows operating systems Microsoft Windows 2003 or 2008 and if we look a little in the past we’ll see that those two are created after Windows NT. If we consider the functions that these operating systems have them we realize that the web hosts that use them will be very effective in terms of components, functionality and efficiency. Windows web hosting also offer the possibility to use such technologies like .NET Framework and other Microsoft products to create new applications.
Compatibility
Windows hosting has the advantage that easily supports Microsoft products such as SQL Server. Precisely because of this feature were created more and more applications compatible with Windows platform and more and more open-source products (like PHP, MySQL or Perl) can now be run on Windows.
Quality and Cost
In terms of cost and quality offered, we can say that Windows is indeed a perfect solution for a web host. Certainly money invested in this operating system will be used properly.
Most times Windows hosting offers much more functionality than Linux hosting and because of that Windows web hosting is most wanted by some developers.