{"id":412,"date":"2020-06-03T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=412"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:56:03","slug":"windows-or-linux-hosting-package","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/windows-or-linux-hosting-package","title":{"rendered":"Windows or Linux Hosting Package ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/articles\/06cNQR42ysiexl1692P4CPe-1..v1625098764.jpg\" alt=\"Windows or Linux Hosting Package?\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Windows or Linux Hosting Package?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">Servergigabit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/windows-vps\/\">Windows hosting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/linux-vps-hosting\/\">Linux Hosting<\/a> Packages operate on different operating systems. Although having the same price, they differ in the followings:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>1. Programming Language\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Linux Hosting supports PHP, Perl and cgi script<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Windows Hosting supports PHP, Perl, cgi script, ASP and ASP.NET<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>2. Database\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Linux supports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysql.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MySQL<\/a> database<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Windows supports Microsoft SQL, MySQL database and Microsoft Access database.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>3. Web Control Panel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Linux hosting plan operates on cPanel<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Windows operates on MSPControl\/Plesk Control Panel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You may first review your programming language and database requirement: \u201cDo your site need ASP.NET?\u201d or \u201cDo your site need other type of Database than MySQL?\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you still happened to be undecided which hosting plan to choose from, you may start with Linux Hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows or Linux Hosting Package? Servergigabit Windows hosting and Linux Hosting Packages operate on different operating systems. Although having the same price, they differ in the followings: 1. Programming Language\u00a0 Linux Hosting supports PHP, Perl and cgi script Windows Hosting supports PHP, Perl, cgi script, ASP and ASP.NET 2. Database\u00a0 Linux supports MySQL database Windows supports Microsoft SQL, MySQL database&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[14],"kbtag":[1158,1165],"class_list":["post-412","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-faq-general-2","kbtag-linux","kbtag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/412\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}