Please select your preferred platform, UNIX or WINDOWS

Don't know what platform to choose?, You can read some of the differencies between both platforms below:

Important: Please don't confuse the following: You don't need to use UNIX at your own home or office computer if you want to host your site with any UNIX platforms. That means, you can have windows or mac at your home or office computer and still selecting UNIX as your hosting platform, infact, there is not any relation between your computer's platform and the hosting plans platforms. The same we can say for the hosting with WINDOWS hosting plans.

Ease of use:

Over the years, many resources have been poured into both UNIX and Windows platforms to make hosting as easy as possible. Today, there are no differences in terms of ease of use between these platforms. If you are an advanced user who prefers to work in shell environment, then UNIX is your choice. However, if you are using Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.NET, ColdFusion or MS SQL, then you will need Windows hosting.

Reliability:

Many say that UNIX is more reliable, but today we think both are reliable at the same level.

Speed:

There is no difference in terms of speed between the two platforms.

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 UNIX or ASP/MS SQL combination under Windows. However, Microsoft FrontPage, one of the most popular web site editors out there, is supported on both UNIX and Windows.

Price:

Here UNIX holds a slight edge due to the fact that the most of the software are open-source (free in a way) and that it’s easier to maintain UNIX servers than Windows servers for the same level of reliability and performance. Unless you specifically plan to use Windows platform specific features, it probably makes sense to choose the UNIX platform.