Linux Server: Why so many webmasters would like to make this decision?
It’s more and more common that a person owns a web site, which can be for blog, family web site, small business web site or even a forum. And the majority of those small-size or medium-size web sites are hosted in Linux environment. Why so many webmasters would like to make this decision?
I think below are 3 key reasons for it.
1) Stable
As an open source operating system, code of Linux is open to the public so that anyone can read it and suggest improvements or point out bugs. Over the years, Linux has been developed in various flavors (the most famous one is Red Hat). Thousands and thousands of people have contributed their time and effort to making Linux web hosting run faster and to provide simpler, more efficient and bug free code. With an open programming environment, improvements are made on a continual basis and problems are seen relatively quickly and solved with a minimum of difficulty.
And the same reason as why it’s stable, the security level of Linux is also higher than Windows.
2) Cheap
Linux is free to all. Unlike Windows, you have to pay thousands of dollars for a license. And this is also part of reason why the list price of Linux web hosting package is much lower than that of windows web hosting packages.
3) A lot of Free Scripts to Help Setting up the Web Site
Open source world is just as beautiful as it could be. A lot of people contribute to it from different perspectives, such as OS, software development tools or applications. Linux, php, and MySQL have been a very popular platform to build an application. Right now, you can find many very good open source application to set up a forum, blog, image galleries, etc. And all those are free and easy to be installed. Even php and My SQL can work on Windows, Linux just a perfect platform for them.
There are more reasons that the webmasters want to choose Linux to host their web site. But a general guideline is that only if you want to use asp.net or sql server to build your web site, otherwise, Linux is always your best choice.
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on October 9, 2009 at 5:21 pm
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It depends entirely on what the server is expected to do.
If you are looking for a stable and secure platform for services that are to be exposed to the internet you may choose one platform, if you are looking for something that easily integrates with a windows environment and has lots of pretty widgets for administration you may choose another.
A great deal of it comes down to the personal taste of the administrator, what type of package management system (RPM, Deb, Pkg, etc) he prefers, and what type of start up scriptsdirectory structures he's confortable with.
Ultimately most of the major linux distributions have something unique and desirable to offer (otherwise they wouldn't be around for too long).
One other thing that may influence the decision is the need for commercial applications, you are more likely to use one of the "big box" flavors if you need Oracle or other business software support.
Finally, it depends on the size of the support staff at the company in question and how heavily they will need to lean on the support (or lack thereof) provided by the software distributor.
on October 9, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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Best thing about Linux is that you can practically run it on anything. To comfortably fetch up websites and files using say Ubuntu linux, you should probably look for something equivalent to a later model Intel P3 or AMD Athlon (hopefully in the 1GHz range), 512MB or more RAM (you can comfortably run Ubuntu with 256MB, but for web server usage, you'll probably want more than that), and a good deal of hard disk space. A gigabit ethernet NIC is recommended, but you can do fine with a standard 10/100 NIC.
I'd suggest going on eBay or browsing through your local classified adverts, and finding a used comptuer and then simply install some extra hard drives into it. I reckon you can build a very speedy and reliable server for less than $250 total!
on October 9, 2009 at 6:54 pm
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Crap comment, no more of this shit please.
on October 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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can u install other windows manager such as Enlightment, IceWM, or Fluxbox (lighter than Xfce, KDE, or Gnome IMO) in this Ubuntu server?
on October 12, 2009 at 1:45 am
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crap video, no more of this shit please
on October 12, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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I doubt you have any good reason to switch (i.e. someone said you should but you don't understand why). I doubt you know what would happen if you switched. I also doubt you asked godaddy how to do it.