hosting question - linux V Windows

Drexl Spivey

Hi,

Why do I get ASP, ASP.NET and PHP with windows plans
and I only get PHP with Linux plans?

Is it possible to get ASP on a Linux plan?

forbairt

asp and asp.net tend to run on IIS ... IIS is a windows only server

There is a port for asp onto apache but its doubtful you'll find it on a shared hosting account (to the best of my knowledge)

http://www.apache-asp.org/

Drexl Spivey

thanks for that, i'll take a look.



apparently it is possible to run php on iis
so i dont see the point in linux if it restricts you to php when windows servers have no restrictions.

forbairt

really its a personal preference type thing most of the time.

If you're going to be doing asp development .. then go with windows

If you're not ... well which system are you more comfortable with Linux or Windows ?

personally I love shell access on the systems I'm working on and find it extremely handy ...

I prefer chmod ... mod rewrite ... shell access to databases in mysql and so on.

I don't do any asp development so its a simple choice for me. I also don't have any mssql databases (though I've worked on a few projects with them)

You'll find some of the open source apps don't really like running on windows systems too much as well paths being different ... and some system variables ... so you may have to end up hacking things slightly.

Really its up to you which to go with

James

squibs

php tends to work better on linux. As I understand it, it was designed with linux in mind, and to integrate with apache and mysql (which have windows ports but would normally be associated with linux). I've had funny issues dealing with the filesystem using php on windows. But I do use php, mysql and apache on my development windows machine and port it to linux hosting later.

aidan_walsh

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