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Windows web hosting can be described among the most earlier and basic level web hosting. It started-off with small scale static website having HTML format with a few images and easy scripting. Such websites allowed their visitors access, interaction with the website owner and some online purchases of goods and services. It was all about the old concept of Windows web hosting.

With the advent of multimedia applications and paving way for a global online community. Web hosting business entered into an evolutionary process to give way to uncherished and unimaginable freedom in web hosting. It is today at its best. Apart from technological advancement, today web hosting is also incorporating the eco-friendly existence. Multiple web hosting are available that offer different packages. Windows Web Hosting has been the most sophisticated but high cost hosting among all the options of web hosting. Since Window is an operating system, it has an integral role in the feasibility and suitability of web hosting services. The company having window as operating system has to opt for windows Web hosting plan.

The second most important Web hosting plan is Linux web hosting. It has much strong and reliable network and it is used for low cost yet quality web hosting. It's hard to compare the difference between Windows operating system hosting and others but it can only be felt by experiencing Windows Web Hosting environment.

In a Linux based web servers, PHP & myself are coded together to achieve anything that is possible. PHP is compatible with Windows to many systems but it definitely needs Linux support for smooth operations. The tags and codes used in it are quiet similar to HTML but one can include functions and scripts to run them on the server side. It is also helpful in making dynamic pages that can pull data, store data and amend data in myself table. PHP also support many other tables like Generic ODBC, Oracle, Sybase, Solid and PostgreSQL.

It all depends on your expertise and comfort with the operating system. Different web developers, web developers and programmers have different set of needs it depends what is their field of expertise. If they are comfortable with Linux based web hosting due to their old experience and expertise in Linux based operating system, they6 will choose to carry-on with Linux Web hosting. On the other hand, a professional with ASP, ASP.NET expertise would love to have Windows Web Hosting, as it will be compatible with IIS.

Windows Web Hosting allows you to exercise more freedom with reference to your website. It offers many different ways to upload the pages designed by you in HTML version to your website. These pages can be uploaded by using FTP which are available for free or by paying very low cost over the internet. Dream weaver or FrontPage users have the opportunity to upload their pages directly on website in the Windows Based Web Hosting.

It's much easier to send and receive me emails with Windows Web Hosting account. After creating your e mail account you can use web mail or outlook express o send and receive your mails with maximum convenience.