Monday, May 13, 2013

Basic Knowledge Of Windows VPS Web Hosting.

By Parth Patel


Now that you have chosen VPS hosting for your website for mere unlimited flexibility for your applications, then you need to take yet another decision about operating system to operate your hosting software. Hosting with VPS is compatible with both the popular operating systems called Windows as well as Linux. Website owners prefer both Windows and Linux for their website to be operated on it. Let's discuss windows VPS web hosting in this article.

The best thing about windows than any other operating system is its user friendly Graphical User Interface. Windows VPS web hosting is more user friendly compared to any other operating system used. It is easier through the better interfaces than the other operating systems.

Windows, being popular for its ease to operate, many of the software designed to be compatible with this operating system when compared to the Linux operating system. For example applications like ASP Classic, ASP.NET, MS-SQL, MS-Access, VB development and C# are compatible with Windows operating system to be used in hosting tasks. Great resource compatibility could be won with windows VPS web hosting than the other operating systems.

Generally Plesk is the control panel designed and provided with the windows based VPS web hosting to interact with the server. Since the files are not case sensitive in windows based web hosting unlike Linux, windows is granted as an easy to use operating system for hosting.

Custom designed Microsoft applications, software and script for hosting services are more compatible with windows based VPS hosting rather than the Linux based hosting. Not only these software, most of the software designed in the information technology can be compatible with Windows and so can be used with the hosting services.

There would be no open source applications run on this windows platform. It needs more resources like RAM, making it "all or nothing" to use.

Most of the open source software is compatible with the Linux and Unix operating system rather than the windows operating system. So, if you are mandate using the open source software which is free of cost you need to go ahead with Linux operating system rather than Windows. There is an advantage as well as disadvantage using this open source software applications. The advantage is you don't need to worry about the additional cost incurred for licenses. And the flip side is open source applications are more sensitive to insecure malware in hosting. Also the SQL attacks and script kiddies are prone in hosting the websites. So, take a decision according to your budget and resources and software applications you want to deploy.




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