Question by Zero X Void: What’s the difference between managing your own dedicated server and getting hosting service for one?
The pros and cons of having your own dedicated server to manage and the pros and cons of getting it from a dedicated hosting service? And what type of website would benefit for either of them?
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Answer by David
If you run your own server you can do any downloads and upgrades, run whatever software you want. But YOU have to manage it and make it work. You’ll probably be running older software because you don’t want to take the whole system down, and possibly not get it up again, to upgrade. If you have a power outage you are completely offline and unavailable to your customers.
If you have a dedicated hosting service like GoDaddy, Google or Yahoo, they have hundreds of engineers and IT people constantly maintaining and managing the servers, with multiple backup systems and virtually unlimited bandwidth. Generally, you get current software, current technology, full time network staff, multi-location hosting, etc.
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Filed under Dedicated Server Hosting by on Jul 29th, 2010. 1 Comment. 
Question by Abhi100: Whats the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting?
Heya Please tell em what the difference is between linux web hosting and windows web hosting. I made my site by dreamweaver does that affect either of the 2 i should choose please tell me thanx!
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Answer by joe.attaboy
Windows and Linux often use two different web server applications. Windows sites use the Windows IIS server, while nearly all Linux sites use Apache.
Linux sites focus on PHP, Perl and other open-source script languages for server side scripting. Windows-based sites use ,NET and ASP technologies. They might also offer support for PHP.
Linux sites offer MySQL as the database for backend content storage. Windows sites will probably offer SQL Server, though some offer the Windows versions of MySQL as well.
There shouldn’t be any difference between the two if you use strict web standards in your HTML. However, you need to be aware of the fact that, since Dreamweaver is a Windows-only product, it may insert some non-standard things into your HTML. Frontpage also does this.
As long as you stick to accepted web standards and don’t use any Windows-centric stuff in your site, you should have no problems with either one.
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Filed under Windows Web Hosting by on Jul 25th, 2010. 1 Comment.
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