sumana wrote:Windows hosting

Greg K — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:15:00 +0000

sumana wrote:

Windows hosting plans will not run WordPress.

FALSE. (just that most of them do not have PHP installed on them, but they CAN and many DO run WP)

PS. This thread is now closed. It is quite old, and the topic has been well discussed.

It depends upon what kind of

sumana — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:50:34 +0000

It depends upon what kind of website you are having. Always better option is Linux hosting. Because, Windows hosting plans will not run WordPress.

Use windows only if you are going to use a CMS made on ASP.net.

My opinion is Linux hosting

jackjelly — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:32:21 +0000

My opinion is Linux hosting is best one. I have hosted my websites in
They provide Linux based hosting services.They providing good service and support ..You can also get the website hosting plan at low cost from there.

for office purpose linux is

partapamit — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:08:44 +0000

for office purpose linux is best , and for home use window is the best

It is personal preference and

hotelquito1 — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:44:45 +0000

It is personal preference and dependent on the your knowledge. You will get people that say Windows is better and you will get people that say Linux is better. Truly, the best is subjective and is completely up to you.

Example, at work, I set up a server for my department. While I would have rather made it a Linux server as I know how to do more things with it, I made it a Windows server since I did not want to spend the time and headaches trying to get Samba to properly authenticate with the Corporate Active Directory (and the fact that I have never used Samba). I also installed IIS and MSSQL since they were the "recommended" corporate applications for Windows servers, but with the refresh I am currently doing on it, I have switched to Apache and MySQL because that is what I am more familiar with.

I would recommend you Linux

Harry14 — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:37:14 +0000

I would recommend you Linux too.

you have to think what do you

pschlacter01 — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:15 +0000

you have to think what do you need it for. each one of them is best for something.

According to me both are the

annahussy — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:43:01 +0000

According to me both are the best to use. It depends that with type of website you have and with platform you use to create website. I prefer to use windows hosting because it is secured to use that provide protection against hackers. Windows hosting is good to use for application based websites .

Linux is definitely the more

Navmecoza — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 23:32:52 +0000

Linux is definitely the more popular choice. Besides I think Link is more secure as well.

It depends upon person to

webmaster555 — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:38:30 +0000

It depends upon person to person whether they want linux hosting or windows hosting.
Linux hosting supports perl.PHP,python etc but it doesnot support .net