Linux or windows hosting?

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Hi all,
I've just started into learning websites and have plenty of queries.

1) Do I need linux or windows hosting from Godaddy (I'm signed up with them already) ? My OS is windows, so will that affect my ability to upload stuff?

2) Do I require cpanel? Say, I purchase a blog/site on WSO...will the seller be able to install it for me regardless of my hosting being linux or windows? then how relevant is cpanel ?

Kindly advise me so that I can make necessary upgrades/downgrades with my hosting acct? Thanks very much in anticipation.
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  • Anyone to help me out?
  • Get Linux,as it's the most popular for hosting BY FAR, and if you're new to hosting, cpanel would be a good idea as it's the most common platform and you'll be able to get help and know its the most compatible.

    With a linux/cpanel hosting service, you'll have the most common set up and the most flexibility.
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  • @Kurt, thanks for replying. Yes, I'm on linux hosting presently. Does it imply cpanel is there by default or I need to upgrade anything? I'm on the economy hosting plan from Godaddy.
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    • I don't know, as I'm not familiar with Godaddy hosting...Ask 'em.

      BTW, always get Linux hosting unless you have a very specific reason to use something else.
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  • Appreciate your quick response Kurt. Thanks again.
  • Windows was a johnny come lately to NETWORKING! It was for SINGLE user computers for most of its existence. It doesn't REALLY have VM or preemptive multitasking. It didn't even have any control panel until sometime in 2000, I believe around 2002. Windows didn't exist until about 1985, and didn't START to have networking until 1992.

    SO, for hosting, ESPECIALLY shared hosting, FORGET IT!

    And what of LINUX? It was based on UNIX(created in the 60s/70s). It ALWAYS had networking, was multiuser, has VM, has preemptive multitasking, and has had a control panel since some time in the 90s. The WWW was basically built on it.

    SO, for hosting, EVEN shared hosting, Linux is a winner. HEY, any wonder why so many sites, EVEN TODAY, use LINUX?

    As for being compatible with your windows downloads? Just send normal text as "ascii", and everything else as "binary", and you will be fine with stuff for download or viewing. Your programs(like word, excel, access, etc....) 9 times out of 10 won't even run on a windows server unless GEARED for it, and PHP and perl can run on windows AND linux, so you can do web development on YOUR windows system, and download it to linux! EVEN the MYSQL that is so popular on linux can run on windows!

    BTW the control panel, like Cpanel, is just there to simplify administration. You don't "NEED" it, but even the best EXPERT would prefer it. Some novices would not be able to exist without it. And even WINDOWS really needs such a thing. Windows may SEEM so much easier, but things like setting up DNS, FTP, terminal servers, server settings, etc... make it seem more complicated, and create the need for such a panel, just like with unix/linux.

    Steve
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    • Actually, it's that a competent Windows admin with sufficient experience to keep a Windows web server secure in the first place will cost about twice as much as a similarly-skilled Linux admin.

      So when a company offers Windows servers, that segment of their company either doesn't have enough staff, or the staff isn't very good.

      Oh, and running client software on your web server is stupid on Linux, too.
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    I think Windows woul be better. But i've been running on Linux hosting companies and they are very good, really, for sure, I hope you make the right choice
  • Thanks all you guys for your helpful comments.
  • yeah but today there have been changes since those days..like fire and electricity.

    linux is usually the standard for most hosts now. It has less system overhead and is generally easier in my opinion. windows web servers tend to be slow unless you have ridiculous hardware backing it up
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    • Windows hosting is always the best type of web hosting than Linux. Windows hosting provide many advance benefits to host any website. It is easy to find any software or any other latest things of Window as compare to Linux.
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  • Look, if you've got just one website, and you're not the one managing the server, you'll never be able to tell the difference anyway, whether it's Linux or Windows. It will all look and perform the same from your end as long as you have cPanel. And yes, cPanel is highly recommended if you're new at this.

    I use Linux-based because, after doing much research, I found it is much more reliable and secure, which means greater up-time for your site.

    I agree with CDarklock on this point, every word, for sure:

  • Linux. cPanel is very important. It's like the nervous system of a website.
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    • What?! I used free hosting with no cPanel for years, and never had a problem one. It's hardly the 'nervous system' (actually I think you meant 'nerve center') of a website.

      cPanel is just a point-and-click interface to make things easier (the exact same thing Windows does).
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