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 What
is Web Hosting?
A service that provides a physical location
for a Web site. Customers’ sites reside on computers stored in
secure and climate-controlled environments and permanently linked to
the Internet through high-speed data lines. These computers store
the Web pages that make up Web sites. As soon as your pages are
installed on the server they become available to visitors and
customers on the Internet - providing they have the correct address.
Unix or Windows?
We offer a choice of either
platform to our customers. The one you choose mostly comes down to
what your needs are.
The following information will help you
choose between our Unix or Windows 2000 hosting solutions. Unless
you specifically need to use features for Windows 2000 such as ASP,
VB Scripts, MS Access, MS SQL or Cold Fusion, you wish to choose the
Unix platform as it is feature rich and easy to use.
Ease of use:
There are no differences in terms of ease of use between the
platforms. You will find both platforms user friendly because both
include our Web-Based Control Panel.
Reliability:
Unix is generally more stable in a multi-user (shared) environment,
however we have made sure that the reliability of the Windows 2000
platform closely matches Unix.
Speed:
There is no difference in terms of speed between the two platforms.
Functionality:
This is where two platforms differ the most;
The main distinction of Windows servers is that they are configured
to be compatible with Microsoft applications, such as MS Access and
MS SQL. Windows also offer web developers the use of programming
environments such as Active Server Pages (ASP), Visual Basic
Scripts, MS Index Server and Cold Fusion.
Unix hosting also offers many server applications and programs that
have been written exclusively for use with Unix. Since Unix is an
open source platform, tons of developers have already created a wide
variety of CGI scripts, PHP scripts, and MySQL applications that
will work on nearly any Unix system. If you choose Windows hosting,
you may find that many of the scripts you want to use won't work
since they were not designed for Windows.
But the trend is for solutions to be supported in both platforms.
For example, Microsoft FrontPage, one of the most popular web site
editors, is supported on both Unix and Windows 2000.
For Pricing Information on
these platforms follow the links below:
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