3 Reasons to Host Your Web Site in a Linux Server
It's more and more common that a person owns a web
site, which can be for blog, family web site, small business web site
or even a forum. And the majority of those small-size or medium-size
web sites are hosted in Linux environment. Why so many webmasters would
like to make this decision?
I think below are 3 key reasons for it.
1) Stable
As
an open source operating system, code of Linux is open to the public so
that anyone can read it and suggest improvements or point out bugs.
Over the years, Linux has been developed in various flavors (the most
famous one is Red Hat). Thousands and thousands of people have
contributed their time and effort to making Linux web hosting run
faster and to provide simpler, more efficient and bug free code. With
an open programming environment, improvements are made on a continual
basis and problems are seen relatively quickly and solved with a
minimum of difficulty.
And the same reason as why it's stable, the security level of Linux is also higher than Windows.
2) Cheap
Linux
is free to all. Unlike Windows, you have to pay thousands of dollars
for a license. And this is also part of reason why the list price of
Linux web hosting package is much lower than that of windows web
hosting packages.
3) A lot of Free Scripts to Help Setting up the Web Site
Open
source world is just as beautiful as it could be. A lot of people
contribute to it from different perspectives, such as OS, software
development tools or applications. Linux, php, and MySQL have been a
very popular platform to build an application. Right now, you can find
many very good open source application to set up a forum, blog, image
galleries, etc. And all those are free and easy to be installed. Even
php and My SQL can work on Windows, Linux just a perfect platform for
them.
There are more reasons that the webmasters want to choose
Linux to host their web site. But a general guideline is that only if
you want to use asp.net or sql server to build your web site,
otherwise, Linux is always your best choice.
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