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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