HELP! - Hosting gurus - I've got a question.

[maxxwebb]

Can someone tell me what the difference is between
LINUX and WINDOWS hosting, and why I would care?

Also, I'm looking at http://www.neureal.com for multi-domain
hosting - any comments or ideas or suggestions???

THANK YOU!!!!!

Mike

 

[rsbombard]

Well im not gonna go through the thousands of differences between the two, but basically all you need to know is this:

Unless you need microsoft specific functionality like ASP, or .NET, then go with non windows boxes (*nix, FreeBSD, etc.).
This is just my opinion though and others may vary, although i hope not

For a little bit more of an in depth view you can check this site out
http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/bsd_flier.html
And yes its on a FreeBSD site so it might appear to be biased, but, again in my opinion, the article on the site is generally true.

 

[maxxwebb]

Thanks Ryan,

I'll check that link out too :gl:

Best,
Mike