WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Activity 7
Give the differences of UNIX Hosting WINDOWS Hosting based on the following;
Costs
Servers that host your website, like everyone else, require operating systems and licenses.
Windows 2003 and other related products, such as SQL Server, are both expensive; on the
other hand, Linux is a free operating system to download, install, and use. As a result, Windows
hosting is a more expensive platform. This determines the pricing; UNIX hosting will always be
less expensive than Windows hosting.
Features
Websites typically evolve over time. They begin small and expand in size as the needs of the
person or group in charge grow. While both platforms can frequently adapt to your changing
requirements, Windows hosting is more easily made compatible with UNIX-based programming
tools such as PHP and MySQL. UNIX-based web software is not always fully interoperable with
Microsoft technologies such as.NET and VB development. If you want to use these, you should
go with Windows web hosting.
UNIX-based hosting is more stable, faster, and compatible than Windows-based hosting.
Windows hosting is required when building in.NET, Visual Basic, or any other program reliant on
the host's preferences.
Limitations
It is simple to gain access to and manage your Windows hosting server. However, working
directly with the Linux operating system will necessitate learning how to utilize the command
line. Learning to integrate various pieces of software via the command line might be difficult for
novices unless you have a Linux administrator to help you. To address this, you can
communicate with the operating system using a variety of GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) such
as cPanel.
