Windows V Linux web hosting

**temi** · 12-15-2008 05:21 PM

Most web hosting are done on Linux but a significant quantity are also done on Windows.
Do you use windows or Linux for your hosting, if you use Windows, why? Is it because you need to run a server sited script/application that is only available on Windows?

**Luq** · 12-16-2008 07:32 PM

All my sites are hosted on Linux, I think Linux servers are more popular than windows servers

**Zoli** · 12-17-2008 08:32 AM

I have never had website on a windows server and hope I will be able to continue this trend in the future. As far as I know the mod_rewrite Apache module could be subtituted on windows server, but the solution is not cheap and on a shared server I don't think it would be provided, at least not in Hungary. And the Apache software has a lot of other very useful modules.

**dds_sdd** · 12-17-2008 12:03 PM

I host e-commerce web site with simplehelix.com and I should say that it has Litespeed server which is 6 times faster than Apache. Can you imagine this? I am happy with the speed and network uptime provided by this company.