Should I choose a Windows Server

If you have already decided to buy web account for your website, you get puzzled when you get asked, Linux or Windows? Thankfully, there is not huge difference between these two and both of the account works fine for most of the websites.

Linux is an open source platform used by more than 85% of the websites worldwide because of it’s flexible nature and you might be wonder that search engine giant Google use Linux to manage it’s hundreds of servers. We at HostingRaja provide Linux plans at cheapest rates with amazing features and benefits and our Linux packages are backed by 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Windows is a product of Microsoft, if you are planning to use any Microsoft technologies such as ASP, .NET, MS Access and MYSQL (https://www.mysql.com/) server, Windows will be the best choice for you.

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creating your website.


Features
Linux Server
Windows Server
Console
Linux offers CLI (command-line interface) console which consumes less memory.
Windows make use of GUI console which requires more memory.
Database
MySQL
MSSQL
Control panel
cPanel/WHM
Plesk
Security
Linux comes with more layers of security such as iptables, tcp_wrapper etc.
Windows Hosting offers security in the form of firewall only.
Application Access
PHP, CGI, Python, or Perl
Applications related to Microsoft only.
Application security
Linux comes with various application level firewalls such as ModSecurity which safeguards website.
Almost no or less security on applications.
Licensing Cost
There is not cost for getting licence for Linux.
There is a Licensing fee for getting Windows.


Furthermore most of the application that run on a Linux server can also run on Windows based server but will not provide complete functionality as similar to Linux Server.

Linux Server or Windows Server – which one to choose?

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