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What is Shared Hosting?

A shared hosting is an efficient solution for anyone who requires website on the internet. HostBreak Web Technologies offers reliable, fast shared web hosting solutions to place your website on a high speed, most modern servers located in United States .

Shall I Go for Linux or Windows?

Shared Website Hosting is independent of the type of operating system user are using among them. It is not important for window users to opt Window hosting and vise versa for Linux. You will be impressed with the extremely robust server environment HostBreak offers either if you choose Windows Hosting or Linux Hosting.

Both are very easy to use

It is indeed a fact that Linux is more difficult to install and has less of a graphic user interface (GUI) as an operating system (add-ons like KDE etc. not taken into consideration). But you don't have to worry about this: HostBreak installs the web servers. And both platforms have their own GUI control panel. Via this control panel, you can create, manage and delete e-mail addresses and much more!

Windows vs. Linux Feature Comparison

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Main supported features

We provide a virtually limitless set of features for our shared web hosting packages - whether you choose Windows or Linux, we can provide you with the features you need. To help you make the choice between Windows and Linux, we have listed a few of the main features that are supported by the two platforms.

Macromedia Flash MX
HTML/XHTML
MS Frontpage Extensions
CGI Scripting
Perl
PHP
XML
Javascript/JQuery
MySQL database
Python
MS SQL database
MS Access database
ASP 3.0 / ASP.NET
COM Objects

Ease of use

HostBreak Web Technologies has over the years poured many resources into both Linux and Windows2003 platforms to make web hosting as easy as possible. Today, there are no real differences in terms of ease of use between these web hosting platforms. If you are an advanced user who prefers to work in shell environment, then Linux is your choice. However, if you are a beginner or using Microsoft technologies/interfaces you will find Windows a much better choice. HostBreak's Control Panel allows friendly management of both systems.

Reliability

In the past the industry consensus was that Linux is a slightly more reliable platform. However, recent years have shown drastic improvements in Microsoft's web server offering, resulting in an equally robust and reliable platform for your web hosting requirements. This concludes that you can make your decision based on the differences in features rather than on reliability.

Speed

There is no real difference in terms of speed between the two web hosting platforms. Performance is generally determined by the specification of hardware powering the web server. HostBreak utilize the best hardware possible in order to ensure optimum performance across the board.

Functionality

This is where two platforms differ the most. There isn't much that can be achieved in one platform that can't be on the other one. The main difference is how the end is achieved. For example, if you need a database driven web site, you can choose either PHP/MySQL combination under Linux or ASP, ASP.NET or MYSQL combination under Windows 2003 hosting packages. The trend is for solutions to be supported in both platforms. For example, Microsoft FrontPage, one of the most popular web site editors out there, is supported on both Linux and Windows 2008. Please see above for a list of supported features.

Are you still in doubt?

Don't understand the Jargon? Not sure which platform is best for you? We will gladly help you to take a decision! Please either call sales at +1 813.413.1278 or Contact by email the sales department for more information. Together, we can take a look at the possibilities, in order to make the right choice.