Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting is the most common web hosting platforms. What is Windows web hosting and what are the good and bad if you host your website on a Windows web hosting Server? Windows Web hosting uses Microsoft Windows web hosting Server to host websites containing simple HTML and ASP web applications.
Windows web hosting uses an application named Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS is an application runs on a Windows web hosting server to serve the HTML web pages to web browsers. When you visit a website, your web browser is downloading web pages stored in the Windows web hosting Server, via IIS.
In what circumstances will you host your websites in Windows web hosting environment? If you need to use ASP or ASP.NET, then Windows web hosting will be your best choice. Some Linux web hosting can also allow you to run ASP just like a Windows web hosting plan, but it might not work as good as normal Windows web hosting server.
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Save By Sharing
It comes by many names: shared servers, shared web hosting, budget web hosting or personal web hosting, but it all boils down to one innovative concept, and that is many website account holders will pour their resources and carve up a web hosting server into compartments that they can park their own respective domains and websites in.
The scheme makes it less expensive for each individual to manage and maintain their site, but they do not have to compromise the features and functions that they would get from a dedicated server.
The Limits
Good fences make good neighbors. That means that each "sharer" of the server pie will get to go about their business in peace and not even be aware of what the others are doing.
Although these "fences" will also be setting several limits, the most notable of which is the space available for the website to build on. For example, a shared server can still offer specialized emails (i.e. you@yourworld.com), the number of accounts that can be configured will be limited. If, however, the business does not need more than 1,000 special email accounts, it really is not much of a loss.
A small business would rarely need more than 50 web pages, and it's easier to move servers when the time comes that they need the extra space than put up with the extra expense for space that they do not need.
The website owner will also be forced to use the server's hosting platform. Still, that could only be either Windows based or LINUX based, and most beginners neither care nor notice the difference, especially if they have someone else design the website for them.
What a website owner should be concerned about that has little to do with the sharing of the server is the hosts' uptime, technical capacity (in terms of traffic), and trouble shooting contingencies. These will affect the accessibility of the site, and might defeat the purpose of trying to get online visibility if inadequate.
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