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What is UNIX Web Hosting?  What is Windows .NET Web Hosting?  Who really cares?  What really matters is your team that is handling your development and what they are more proficient with, UNIX or Windows. 

It used to matter which platform you chose.  At one point in the short history of the Internet Windows Web Hosting was more flexible and easier to develop dynamic database driven websites, however now a days, with software like Dreamweaver going face to face with microsoft development tools the playing field has been leveled.  In fact, it has even shifted things towards the UNIX platform’s favor with it’s tried and true security, inexpensive maintenance and lack of Microsoft Server licenses fees.

UNIX Web Hosting has been around since the 1969 and with its very simple operating system has had plenty of time to be tested and proven as secure.  Microsoft Windows .NET Web Hosting has been full of bugs since day one, hence security update after security update and server pack after server pack.  UNIX Web Hosting has become so universal that Apple decided to make its operating system UNIX based rather than stay on their own MACOS.

The maintenance on UNIX Web Hosting is much cheaper once you get to running your own servers.  A UNIX CPU can be purchased for as little as $60 – $100 and with the free operating systems UNIX is definitly inexpensive.

Windows and .NET Web Hosting has its advantages as well.  Microsoft of course has published some of the best developement tools on the market to help developers in creating Enterprise level applications (complex projects).  In addition, .NET, is a real programming application that allows you to just about anything you want with a program because of the ability to program web applications in traditional languages like C and C#.  The ability to compile your web application into machine language also speeds the processing of your website and allows you to do more things in the behind the scenes while the user is perusing your website.

When you are pursing your choices for Web hosting, first consider who you are going to be working with to develop your website and make sure that they can work on the Server Environment that you choose (UNIX Web Hosting or Windows .NET Web Hosting).  Then consider your project and what you are going to need.  If you can stay on a UNIX Web Hosting Environment then do it because you will save money in the long run, however if you are planing on doing something that is going to require a Windows .NET Web Hosting Environment, then stay on UNIX as long as possible to save money in the short term!