Linux or Windows Hosting - which is right for me?

Deciding which plan-type is right for you is often a difficult decision. We hope this explanation can help you in choosing the correct hosting platform for your website. We offer a choice between Windows-based and Linux-based web hosting platforms. While both are very reliable and widely used platforms, each has their own quirks.

Windows hosting is often mistaken as a "must pick" only because the operating system you are running may be Windows. In fact, the majority of all websites on the Internet are hosted on the Linux platform, so most websites you have been visiting are likely to be hosted on Linux servers.

If you have Windows on your machine, you can still manage a website hosted on a Linux server and also browse any website hosted on a Linux server. You only need Windows-based hosting if you need Microsoft-specific applications, such as ASP, ASP.Net, MS SQL Server or MS Access databases.

If you do not need any of these Microsoft-specific applications - or if you don't even know what they are, then the better choice will always be to host your website a Linuxserver. Linux servers host the majority of all websites on the Internet and will provide you with highly reliable hosting services. For more details, please view our Linux Hosting Plans.

If you are absolutely certain that your website requires Microsoft-specific applications, such as ASP, ASP.Net, MS SQL Server or MS Access - please view our Windows Hosting Plans.