Windows VPS Web Hosting.

By Parth Patel


Choosing the hosting plan is successful with VPS which is very flexible with independent resources and now what? There is an immediate step to do is the decision of operating system to operate the hosting software. Both the popular operating systems are like Windows and Linux are compatible with the VPS hosting, and both of them are preferred by the website owners. Since windows is familiar to all of us, let's go through Windows operating system used for hosting.

Windows is the only operating system with great deal of user friendliness with its graphical user interface. This is the best about Windows operating system winning lots of ease to perform the tasks on the editors on the console rather than the command line interface as in Linux.

There are many applications which are compatible only with the Windows operating system than the Linux operating system. These applications are like ASP Classic, ASP.NET, MS-SQL, MS-Access, VB development and C#. So ASP web pages are completely compatible with Windows. It provides great resource of compatibility with the popular web development applications which are in the present industry.

Hosting tasks are performed in control panel software called Plesk for Windows based hosting for server interaction. Windows files are case sensitive and so easy to handle the web files than the Linux based hosting.

If you have decided to use the custom Microsoft applications, scripts and software, then Windows based VPS hosting services is the best option. It is because almost all software designed in IT industry is compatible with the windows operating system.

Windows VPS hosting demands considerably more resources like RAM than for Linux.

Last but not least important factor is open source application usage for Windows VPS web hosting. We know that open source software applications are better compatible with Linux and Unix operating system than the Window. So these open source applications for Windows are "all or nothing". So, if your business tasks can be performed with the open source software applications, that is good and you need to opt for Linux based hosting than the Windows. These open source applications are advantageous and disadvantageous to use. Advantage is it needs no investment for licensing the software to use. And disadvantage is that this open source software is sometimes more prone to malware which could be dangerous to the business data on the web.




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