Choosing between Unix and Windows Web Hosting Service

Web Hosting Platform - Unix vs Windows

It is perfectly fine, and in fact quite common, to host your web site on our Unix web hosting service while using a Windows or Macintosh computer to design and publish it.

Features	Linux Hosting	Windows Hosting
Operating System	Linux	Microsoft Windows Server
Web Server	Apache	Internet Information Server (IIS)
Server side processing	Unix web hosting is Ideal for PHP, Perl or Python powered web sites.	Windows web hosting is ideal for ASP or ASP.NET powered web sites. Also support PHP and Perl in CGI Mode.
Database Support	MySQL	Microsoft Access, MySQL
Account Access	FTP, FrontPage	FTP, FrontPage
FrontPage Support	Unix version of FrontPage Extensions does not support the File Upload component. Other than this, our Unix hosting service works well with FrontPage.	Windows version of FrontPage Extensions supports the File Upload component
Software Support	Standard unix tools, NetPBM, ImageMagick, Perl Modules, etc.	COM Objects, .NET Framework, ISAPI DLLs.
Email System	There is no difference in email features. Email services are served by a separate server for greatest reliability and flexibility.