UNIX Web Hosting
UNIX web hosting involves UNIX operating system, UNIX is an open source operating system which is specially designed for network environment such as servers. This open source operating system has become the base of many other operating systems such as Solaris from sun Microsystems, Linux and many more. Selecting a UNIX web hosting, have its own advantages and disadvantages.
There are two different operating systems being used for hosting, one is UNIX and other is windows. UNIX web hosting is cheaper as compared to windows web hosting, because UNIX operating system is freely available to use. This freely available operating system can reduce many other expenses. This feature of UNIX, give benefit to customers, they can enjoy cheaper web hosting with all best features. The tools and software’s that are used for UNIX web hosting are also free and written by many experts around the world. Due to its open source feature, every one can make changes in it. Expert persons all around the world working on this operating system day and night to make this system more secure and reliable. As all the patches and updates of this operating system are free, so every hosting company continuously update there servers. All the problems and back draws of this operating system are quickly removed.
The major disadvantage of UNIX web server is that, this operating system is not GUI. You can access your server by using Telnet or SSH. To operate UNIX based web server, you must have good knowledge about the commands of UNIX. Before taking advantage of this operating system, you must learn all its commands.
UNIX and Linux operating systems are same, however Linux is also available in GUI form but when it comes to hosting world it is also a command line operating system. Due to security, reliability and cost people love to host there sites on Linux based web server. Some of the web technologies can only run on UNIX or Linux operating system. Like if you design your site using PHP, MySQL, Python, and XML then it is compulsory to host your site on Linux based web servers. Some of the leading hosting companies offer free UNIX web hosting with PHP, and MySQL. They also offer free domain name registration.
