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Differences between UNIX web hosting, linux web hosting and windows web hosting
UNIX web hosting is a hosting that is provided on UNIX operating system platform. UNIX is just like Linux and there is not much difference between both the operating systems as Linux is the improved form of UNIX. UNIX was developed in the start of seventies and rewritten in “C” (programming language). This language provides it the ability to live longer than the hardware it lived on. This was a great achievement. After several years a person named Linus Torvalds created a free version of UNIX which then named Linux.
Both these operating systems are almost similar but these operating systems are different from other operating systems like Windows. Windows is not more secure than these but it is easy to use. Most of the people think that they may not get the Linux/UNIX hosting as they are using Windows operating systems in their PC’s. I want to clear one thing that when just applying for web hosting companies for web hosting that is based on Linux operating system it doesn't matter which one you are using on your computer as it is commensurable with any operating system.
Evolution of linux/UNIX operating system
Few years back Linux/UNIX operating system was used only by the professionals and if you were not an experienced user you had no future with this OS. But now the situation has been changed. Most of the hosting companies are now supporting Linux/UNIX web hosting and they have done their best to make users' web sites managing more comfortable and user friendly. For example for the beginners Linux/UNIX web hosting providers offer friendly control panels that include Web-interface and for experienced persons they provide and opportunity to control the site by means of shell.
Advantages of UNIX Hosting
Here we will discuss some advantages of UNIX.
- Most of the web hosts use free version of UNIX therefore UNIX offers a lower cost of development than Windows because most UNIX hosting plans are cheaper than Windows hosting plans.
- Any one who wants to look at the code and change it is free to do so as UNIX is an open source operating system. Inother words you can change the code according to your facility.
- The Unix/Linux community is very supportive.
There are lots of other benefits of UNIX hosting. Due to these advantages more and more web hosts are now offering UNIX web hosting.
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