vishwa
Active Member
This is completely not true. Your website speed doesn't depends on the platform of your host. Whether it is linux or windows. Your website speed depends on lot of factors and how you optimize your website. I also agree with poor web server but that doesn't mean that windows is best and linux is bad or linux is good and windows is bad.
Dean
Well-Known Member
I agree with @vishwa , I don't think that your hosting platform will determine the loading speed of a site itself. I personally think it will more likely depend on the equipment that the server is using that your site is on as well as the CMS or coding of the website itself. I have never seen any information that says windows hosting sites load faster myself.
Cheers, Dean.
Cheers, Dean.
KeralMTG
Active Member
They also told me this because they say that windows hosting does not require as much ram to make the website load fast so it can be faster because it is like having more ram. This is not true?
Can all CMS work on both windows and linux? Like wordpress can work on both or just linux?
Waqass
Member
I don't know who is guiding you but the are just trying to fool around with you. Some linux distros are way much lighter than a windows and specially built for hosting websites. Once again it is reiterate that multiple factors effect the performance of the website but for a small site you won't note any difference. So assuming that your website is not resource intensive you can go with windows or linux hosting and won't notice any difference.
KeralMTG
Active Member
Thanks for the information mate. I see that you are a host so then which do you think is best if you wanted to host a blog of your own? You would use windows or linux?
Waqass
Member
Dear I already answered that. If your website is low on resources it won't matter. However Linux has proven to be more secured in the hosting industry so I would always prefer Linux based hosting as speed is not the only factor to be considered when going to host your site speed, reliability & up time also comes in to play their part.
KeralMTG
Active Member
Thanks. I didn't think about the security part of it. I did not know that linux were more secure.
david smith
Member
The loading speed of the website is dependent on multiple factors and just hosting the website on Windows hosting is not going to make the site load faster. Windows hosting is selected less by users, hence the users on Windows servers can be less than users on Linux server thus some users may have experienced better resource utilisation on Windows servers. Thus they must have said that websites load faster on Windows servers.
KeralMTG
Active Member
Someone told me that windows servers are more efficient than linux servers which is why they are faster. They said that windows servers use less ram also which is one reason why they are faster. I do not know if that is true because I have found nothing stating this when I was searching.
KeralMTG
Active Member
Then we should always choose Linux servers for better security?