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Give Your Old Computers a New Life with Linux Support

Author: Chris Gayle
by Chris Gayle
Posted: Jun 08, 2015

Often companies are confused between Linux and Windows operating systems while looking for affordable web hosting platform. However, both of them provide open source proprietary platforms and possess their own strengths and weakness. Linux and Windows both cater for the specific needs of online businesses and both want to have a bigger share of the pie. However, Linux servers are extremely attractive to Internet entrepreneurs and publishers.

Linux was once a niche operating system, which provides the necessary components and services on which many rely. Linux continues its entry into the world's largest data centers, onto hundreds of thousands of individual desktops and it represents a near 100 percent domination of the cloud services industry. Linux has the support of a worldwide community of developers, who contribute to the source code, security fixes and system enhancements. Let’s have a look at few benefits of Linux:

Speed and Simplicity

Linux is generally easier and simpler to use than Windows. It comes with pre-installed software that’s ready for modification and extension. Linux was designed to support basic web hosting, which means users can install PHP, My SQL and Perl Script to maximize website productivity and performance. It is known for providing better performance than Windows and capable of handling higher amount of processes simultaneously.

Free

Linux is free of charge and it is free in the sense that it is also free of patents and other restrictions that make it unwieldy for creative business owners, who wish to edit and enhance the source code.

Security and Reliability

security issues have become critical especially since major tech brands have experienced some form of hacking or online theft. There has been a long debate regarding security and reliability between Linux and Windows hosting. When it comes to reliability, Linux arguably outguns Windows since it was one of the early platforms to host websites as the Internet got started.

Open Source Platform

One of the reasons people choose Linux is because it is an open source platform. Web programmers can modify, improve and distribute it (through various stages of development) to the public. There is a worldwide body of users that are constantly working to increase its functionality and fix bugs.

Stable

Linux systems rarely crash, and when they do, the whole system normally does not go down. The "blue screen of death" familiar to Windows users is not a worry for Linux users.

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