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Anyone looking to buy web hosting that is of top quality and offered at a reasonable fee will most likely have come across the option of Linux hosting. It is one of the most common cheap hosting plans today; only costing a couple of dollars each month. The Linux software and development itself is open source and hence free. Many like to compare Linux hosting with Windows hosting so let us take a further look at if there is any difference and which one to choose.

These two types of hosting are quite similar in many ways but there are still a few differences that could be worth mentioning. Firstly though, one mistake that many seem to do is focusing too much on the operating system rather than picking web host because of its services and features. We have already mentioned that Linux hosting comes very cheap (so does Windows hosting) and all the features that almost always are included makes the hosting plan even more impressive. Take a look at the Linux hosting plans offered by the largest hosting providers on the market – we are sure that you will like what you see.

Ok, Linux hosting and Windows hosting are quite similar in many ways but is it possible to say that one is better than the other? Historically has Linux been regarded as the stronger alternative among webmasters and it still seems as if it is their top alternative. One reason for this could be that Linux hosting has narrowed its ease-of-use gap and functionality.  Windows hosting is of course not a bad alternative and it can boost with full allowance for use of ASP and ASP.Net. You are probably better off with Windows if you feel more comfortable with ASP when creating websites. If you are not particularly fond of ASP we would like to recommend you picking Linux hosting.

If we look into web servers in Linux we have Apache, lighttpd, nginx and many other open source servers. They are 100% open source and free. For big websites you can have complicated setup like clustering and failover.

In Windows hosting we have IIS. Mostly it is used to host .NET (old same ASP). Unlike in Linux, in IIS you are more or less stuck with .NET and there’s not much chance to scale.

Most of the successful websites run free and open source servers and applications. Good examples will be Google, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo and such.

So if you are buy web hosting consider linux hosting as an alternative. If you don’t have any particular reason for going windows hosting go for linux hosting!