Linux is an OS, that isn't that commonly used for desktop machines, but is amongst the most widely used OSs for servers. It's free of charge, so you won't have to pay any license charges as part of your web hosting payments. Linux is furthermore considered to be the most reliable Operating System these days and thanks to the permissions that files have and also the file types that can be run, virus files which can infect an average computer will simply not be executed on a Linux-based server. Additionally, the OS is absolutely free, so it can be altered with no limitations, so as to satisfy the needs of the web hosting company and their clients. This means that unnecessary software packages can be removed to make the OS lighter and swifter, which can directly contribute to much better server performance. Lots of Linux machines have the Apache web server installed on them, due to the fact that this software is also totally free, fast and reliable. It's the most popular web server out there and is a part of the LAMP bundle that a lot of script applications, including WordPress and Joomla™, need. LAMP is an abbreviation for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Stable Linux with Apache in Shared Hosting
All of the web servers which are a part of our progressive cloud hosting platform run Linux to be able to guarantee their fast and stable functioning, that will in turn result in much better overall website functionality. This is valid for every site that you host in a shared hosting account with our company. Each part of the hosting service (e-mail messages, databases, files) will be handled by its own group of machines, so just one type of processes shall run on a particular machine, which will contribute to the fast loading speed of your Internet sites even more. You could use HTML, PHP, JavaScript, Python, Perl and almost any other web development language for your Internet sites, as they all can run on a Linux web server. We use the Apache web server, as our experience over the years indicates that this is probably the perfect software of its kind.
Stable Linux with Apache in Semi-dedicated Servers
We have chosen to use Linux on our servers also, since no other OS can match its versatility and without it, we wouldn't have had the chance to develop our custom web hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. The platform incorporates massive clusters of web servers, each addressing a specific part of the website hosting service - databases, email messages, files, the CP, and so forth. The end result of merging this custom setup with Linux is an extremely stable, protected and quick service with basically no downtime. What's more, the web access is addressed by Apache, because it is remarkably customizable and supports lots of modules and web programming languages like PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, and so on. Our semi-dedicated server solutions will offer you all the speed and dependability that you would like for your websites and we've made a lot of software modifications to be certain that we shall fulfill our uptime guarantee.