What is better.... a Windows server or Linux server for hosting? Why?

Yes.





(It totally depends on what your doing, please expand more).

My vote goes for Linux for stability reasons.

Windows servers have a lot of security holes. But then there is a book out on how to hack a Linux server.

You are going to get a lot of posts, but the issue is what do you want to use the server for? If you want true ASP and Windows SQL databases go Windows. If you want to save thousands of dollars by going open source go Linux, BSD, etc. Each has pros and cons.

Something to consider: According to a recent poll 8/02 63% of all websites run Apache Server.

Originally posted by beachtrader
Something to consider: According to a recent poll 8/02 63% of all websites run Apache Server.

And this is relevant to the issue because...?

The Apache HTTP server is avaliable for both linux and windows.

Its not, just something to consider...

I'd say linux and rather then going in technical discussion I'll state more personal reasons. Microsoft is found guilty of unlawful monopoly practices. That means that at one point they said "**** sasha. We will limit his choices and force him to give us his money." If at all possible I would not support them in any way.

Depends entirely on your system and/or security administrator(s).


However, I would lean more to the Linux side because it is open source, which means you can patch security problems if you have the know-how, and generally speaking... the linux community release security patches far faster than microsoft does.

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