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.
