| Windows and UNIX are in fact two different | | | | Scripts, MS Index Server, Macromedia's and Cold |
| systems and of course we are referring to computer | | | | Fusion. |
| systems. A web host uses computers, (we shall | | | | Windows operating system require little or no |
| refer to them as servers, just computers, but | | | | experience in web development to get advanced |
| sometimes larger) to host websites, and all | | | | features working very quickly because of better |
| computers need a operating system, so Windows | | | | graphical user interface (GUI) Software such as |
| and UNIX are the operating system. | | | | Microsoft's FrontPage is specially developed for the |
| The Windows used is normally Windows NT or 2000 | | | | webmaster to decrease the website development |
| and of course as you know Microsoft charges for it's | | | | time and efforts. |
| software, while UNIX is an open source operating | | | | Lets go back again to UNIX, they support FrontPage, |
| system, this means that the original creators of the | | | | Flash, Shockwave, Real Audio/Video, Cgi Scripts, Perl, |
| system have given up the rights and anyone can use | | | | PHP, SSH (Secure Telnet), MySQL, Web-Based |
| it, change, improve or do anything they want with, | | | | Control System, Anonymous FTP, Web Site Graphical |
| free of charge. | | | | Statistics, Web-Based Email System, Miva/XML, Cold |
| From this we already have to main differences, | | | | Fusion Perl, JAVA, PHP, C, C++, Miva, Shell Access |
| Window hosts are more expensive and UNIX is more | | | | and other wide verity of feature like Telnet and SSH |
| reliable, because it as been improved by thousands of | | | | that provides lots of flexibility and freedom in |
| anonymous people. | | | | managing file and directories, but some of this require |
| Most probably you are reading this in front of your | | | | advance knowledge of Unix commands in order for |
| computer which most probably is operates on a | | | | you to customize the scripts to match your website |
| Windows XP, have you noticed that it sometimes, it | | | | needs. |
| freezes, and the only solution is to restart it? UNIX is | | | | Because of the nature of UNIX, (open source) and |
| much more stable, robust, time-tested, flexible | | | | the people who love it, there is on the WWW freely |
| platform for a web server. | | | | available software and scripts, again bringing the cost |
| Hosting Marketers | | | | down. |
| But Windows servers have also it's positive sides, | | | | Concluding which one is the best, it really depends |
| they are compatible with Microsoft applications, and | | | | what you need, if you need high uptime, security and |
| fully support Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Access | | | | not so expensive then go with UNIX, if you need to |
| and MS SQL, they also offer advance-programming | | | | run Windows applications like, MS Access or the MS |
| environments and features such as Active Server | | | | SQL SERVER then Windows is your choice. |
| Pages (ASP), the ASP.NET framework, Visual Basic | | | | |