Windows versus Linux for Web Page Hosting
An Overview
Choosing between Linux and Windows for your hosting provider can be challenging. This table should help make it a little easier.
Return to Windows versus Linux for Web Page Hosting
| Windows | Linux | |
|---|---|---|
| FTP Access | yes | yes |
| Telnet/SSH Access | limited | yes |
| HTML & JavaScript | yes | yes |
| FrontPage Extensions | yes | yes |
| CGI/Perl | limited | yes |
| ASP | yes | limited |
| PHP | limited | yes |
| ColdFusion | yes | yes |
| Access Database | yes | no |
| mySQL Database | yes | yes |
