Which is better for WordPress.org – Linux or Windows Hosting? Please read details for more information, too!?
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at
10:02
Now, in the next few days I will be purchasing a new domain name from GoDaddy (as well as their Economy Hosting Plan). I am going to be hosting my blog on a sub-domain (my own piece of the website). I am just curious if one hosting package is better than the other:
Linux
Windows
Thanks!
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Linux is better of course. WordPress is a PHP/MySQL open source app. Linux is it's native environment.
If you've decided to get hosting from Godaddy, don't buy your domain upfront. Buy it with hosting so that you can get it for $1.99 instead of like $10. You can get 20% discount on any Godaddy plan. More info at: http://www.hosttell.com
P.S. The Economy plan you mentioned offers hosting of just one domain, so it means that you can host just one site on it. If you want to have more websites you have to get a new hosting plan. If you choose the Deluxe hosting, you can host unlimited websites on the same plan (at no additional cost, just the cost of additional domain name). But if you're sure you won't need to host another site, the Economy plan is fine. If you still haven't decided on hosting I recommend Powweb. They have the best offer right now (a 50% sale – $3.88/month – $46.56/year), and you get a free domain from them. (They also offer hosting of unlimited domains) They include easy, one click install of WordPress from their control panel, so you don't have to do it manually.
All websites today currently run on either a Windows web server or a Linux-based server. The vast majority of websites run on a Linux-based platform as Linux has a strong reputation for security and web server performance. With standard (static) HTML-based websites, the web hosting platform doesn't make much difference. When it does make a difference, however, is when the website uses a dynamic scripting technology such as ASP (A Microsoft based technology), or PHP / PERL (Linux based technologies). A Windows-based hosting solution will run a Microsoft Windows server with IIS (Internet Information Server), and is necessary to run an ASP / ASP.NET scripted website. A Linux-based platform is typically used for PHP, Perl, and most other types of websites. Basically, unless your website uses ASP (pages ending in the .asp extention), Windows hosting is not neccessary.
Take a look at; http://www.threehosts.com/forum
There you can reach the three reputable companies that are leaders in the Forum hosting industry.
Notice: Forum software which is used by godaddy is phpbb or SMF (Simple Machines Forum). But they don't provide the most popular software which is Vbulletin.
Hello,
I have used WordPress with Windows hosting without problem. It's also much easier to administrate Windows machine than Linux one. Most of the Windows hosting companies provide preinstalled WordPress in their hosting plans – http://www.windowshostingasp.net/Top_ASP_NET_Shared_Hosting_Providers.aspx
Regards