Web hosting industry is a very vast sector which comprises of various categories of service providers within the group. These classifications can be made on various basis such as choice of management style (such as fully managed, partially managed unmanaged etc.), choice of Operating system used etc. On the basis of the operating system used there are three major categories such as Free BSD operating system based hosting, Microsoft’s Windows based hosting and Linux based hosting.
Of the mentioned above types Linux hosting is the most popular web hosting platform in use. Its use is not only preferred for its free and open source policy but also for its ease of use and ability to be configured as per the user’s wish. The main advantages posed by Linux over the Windows operating platform is that the kernel in Linux is open to its users and anybody can modify that and post it as a new distribution after removing all the errors. This feature allowing developers to study the kernel of the Linux operating system has allowed many developers to produce advanced net management tools specifically for Linux. And the best part is that most of the software based on Linux is free-ware, thus they don’t come heavy in the wallet of the server sector user.
The various control utilities available in Linux can be put together in a single control panel. Cpanel is one such control panel which is very user friendly and provides high utility. Apart from that web hosting domains which are based on Linux are generally offered at lower prices than the web domains hosted on the Windows platform. The Linux based web domain users are generally not required to learn Linux coding and system administration as the web hosting company will itself take care of such tasks. The user can even categorize several tasks as routine tasks and the web hosting company will make sure that those tasks are performed as per the scheduled calender. Thus it can be seen that hosting with a Linux operating system gives its domain owners various added benefits.
