A few time ago appeared a lot disagreements between opinions on
the internet regarding, which is the best operating system for
web hosting. There are people who hate windows, there are people
who love FreeBSD and many others.
The thing is that the best system that suits you depends on what
you are doing. The servers and the softwares, all run on a
program named operating system. on a personal computer you will
probably have windows ME, XP, NT or something similar to those.
You can call this program the operating system. Any hosting
server also needs running on an operating system. There are 3
different versions.
The first one powered by Microsoft is Windows. So, Microsoft
also makes a system designed for servers. Microsoft products can
trill integrate in this operating systems. It also allows web
sites to run Active Server Pages. The Microsoft servers also
allow the integration of SQL databases. The only problem of the
Microsof web hosting servers is that they are very expensive.
You will probably find one that costs several thousands of
dollars.
The second version for web hosting servers is Linux. Linux was
created and developed by some individuals who wrote the main
part of the Linux operating system. After that, there were added
some other parts to customize the operating system for the
particular use of any user. There are many companies that market
Linux, like Red Hat, Debian. The main advantage of Linux is that
is compatible with PHP. Also it's very stable and has a great
security. The best thing about it is that Linux is free.
The third version of operating system for web hosting servers is
Unix. Unix is almost the same thing as Linux. If we think more,
we will find more similarities than differences between the two
programs. The most important difference is the way they came to
the world. So let's make it clear. Linux is something like a
cousin of Unix. There are two main Unix-based operating systems:
FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The good thing about this systems is that
they seem to be very stable once you manage to install them. But
they are very hard to install. OpenBSD is also known to be one
of the most secure operating system in the world. But with
OpenBSd you will have to sacrifice some features for a plus of
security. Again the best thing about these systems is that they
are both free.
The best for you depends on what you are going to do with it. If
you want great security, you should try OpenBSd. If you are
looking for compatibility with all the windows products, then
choose Windows. For compatibility with PHP programing language
choose Linux.The fact is that one cannot tell which system is
best, but employing and using it according to his needs.
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