Linux vs Windows Dedicated Server Operating Systems

February 11th, 2010 by admin under Dedicated Servers. No Comments.

Almost all the web hosting providers are giving an option to choose from Linux or windows for the operating system of dedicated servers. I have seen lots of debates on the internet whether or not Linux or Windows is the perfect operating system for the server, but the bottom line is that 70 to 80% of small business owners or mid-level traffic clients, it doesn’t make any difference whether you are using Linux or Windows on your dedicated servers. I personally use Linux for my servers, and I am using it without any problem from a long time. I am not having much experience with Windows OS, but I have used it some times and they seemed to be responsive and pretty much good at serving HTTP requests as their source is same.

You might have noticed that I have not mentioned anything on – which OS should someone go with?

If you are not going to develop any windows specific site that use the things like ASP or ASP.NET, I would suggest you to go with Linux. As because OS is free, it will help you in some cost cuttings. CentOS is also a easy server GUI which is very user-friendly, and with the newest version of CentOS has made it pretty much easy to set up a web server by using Apache as it is using Windows Server and IIS.

I honestly admit that I may be a little biased because I use Linux more for my work and it is quiet possible that I can’t see the difficulties in it. It was not so difficult for me to pick up and I have been using windows system all my life. I will end-up here by saying it can’s hurt you to run Linux if you are not afraid of learning a little and not running any OS specific applications.

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