What’s the difference between Linux & Windows hosting?
The most popular web hosting is Linux Hosting; Linux Hosting refers to web hosting provisioned from servers running on any Linux operating system such as Ubuntu, Centos, and Debian among others.
Therefore, the main difference between Linux hosting and Windows Hosting is the underlying operating system, Linux hosting utilizes Linux while Windows Hosting utilizes Windows Operating Systems.
Other differences include support software such as control panels; Linux Hosting utilizes a wide range of control panels including Cpanel, Plesk, Cyberpanel, ISP, Interworx, e.t.c.
Windows Hosting primarily utilizes a Plesk Control Panel.
The other difference is the web server, Linux Hosting the most popular web servers Apache, and LiteSpeed Webservers while Windows Hosting most popular web server is the inbuilt IIS (Internet Information Services).