Hi, I would like to have your views. I recently got linux hosting. I have never used linux before. I always use Windows because i used to work on ASP. But now a days mostly people ask for PHP and wordpress so thats why i decided to go for linux. I have few questions, please answer them and help me. 1. Is linux more secure then windows ? 2. What steps should i take to make my wordpress site more secure (its Cpanel) 3. What kind of servers are usually hit by defacers. I have seen many sites have been defaced recently. So is linux (cpanel) good for security. 4. The windows i was using was terrible slow, and i had no other option but to switch to linux. 5. I will ask one more question in other forum as well but even here if someone can reply as it is related. (Since i moved my site to linux, the site cache has some problem. The posts of wordpress opens old. Infact whole page opens old. What do i do to make the site open always the updated version of the page. Please let me know. I will add question if i will have more. I will be very thanksful to you. Regards
Considering Linux and MySQL work perfectly on Windows, you didn't need to change for that reason. No, but it isn't less secure either. The security of the server depends on the skills of the system administrator. You can't do anything about server security. With Wordpress, keep the software up-to-date and look out for any security releases. If you're using plug-ins make sure they are kept up-to-date too. Keep your eye on the Forums for Wordpress and the plug-ins you use for security bulletins or other people reporting problems. No matter how well the server is administered, if you use a dodgy script it doesn't stop your site being compromised. However, on a well set-up and maintained system the damage should be limited to your site only. Badly administered or badly set-up ones. No more, no less than other operating systems. It depends on your host I'd have said you had no option but to change hosts. It had nothing to do with the operating system. Your host obviously wasn't running very good hardware or had oversold their server.
1. Windows (ASP) is a bit more secure over Linux. However it is depend on the way programmer wrote the code anyway. 2. You may consider this Wordpress Security Scan Plugins for additional protection layer. 3. Linux 4. Most of ASP hosting cannot provide the same performance as Linux in the same price range. There are license costs that server owner need to pay. They can offer a low price but compensate with overselling instead. 5. I have no comment on this one.
Linux is Unix based and much more standard and there is a lot more apps out there, plus a lot of help. (for html, php) MS is Microsoft Windows server stuff and if you are not very familiar with it, then you are probably better off with the Linux. (for asp, xml, html) What you are intending to do with the site long term plus your knowledge base determines what platform you should choose. If your knowledge is Windows server specific already, then MS may be better for you. But there are a lot more people who are able to help with Linux. For me personally, linux is always best for web hosting. If you are developing anything Microsoft wise, then MS hosting may be your only choice.
Sorry folks, but if you're going to post information and advice, then at least make it accurate. It's probably true that Windows Server 2008 is a more secure default installation that any default Linux installation, but both can be made very secure and no server admin worth their job would put a server onto the internet in its default installation. Hosting on a Windows platform is not "ASP" hosting, it's just hosting. Windows supports ALL the most common programming and scripting languages used on Linux. For the end user (the site owner) it doesn't really matter what operating system the host is using. It's all "hidden" from them with the Control Panel they use and the ease-of-use for the end user is not that much different. It's true that Windows licences costs money but so do some Linux installations. The cost of Server 2008 Standard is only around $18 per month per CPU - hardly a huge amount of money. However, one good thing about Windows hosts is that they have to be approved by Microsoft to use their licences (the only way to LEGALLY host using Windows) so there is a certain level of competence required to be a Windows host. As a Windows host, the costs of licences is a triffling sum in comparison to rack space, power, bandwidth, and support team costs, and makes no real difference to the price that hosting is supplied for when it comes to shared hosting. It is More standard that what? Given the number of Linux distributions I'd say there's nothing "standard" about the Linux OS marketplace except the name "Linux". You're mixing up the Operating System (Linux) with the applications and languages it can run. HTML and PHP run on Windows too. In fact, PHP performance on Server 2008 is extraordinary. The applications you are running as an end user shouldn't be used to determine the operating system you choose UNLESS what you are needing isn't available on a certain platform. Windows supports all the most common scripting languages that Linux does (PHP and PERL being the most common) PLUS it supports ASP and ASP.NET. It could easily be argued that Windows provides the platform that can be used by any end user with a site whereas with Linux they are limited. What difference does it make what OS the host is using? Really? What difference, unless the site is written in ASP or ASP.NET when you HAVE to use a Windows host. If you're running Wordpress, Joomla, or Drupal, need Ioncube, Zend support, MySQL, and rewrite, they all work on Windows hosting too. As a site owner using shared hosting you shouldn't be concerned with how easy (or difficult) a particular operating system is to administer or secure because you'll never be interacting with it directly anyway. The host will have a Control Panel that is used to set-up sites, emails, FTP accounts, databases etc etc so the underlying operating system is irrelevant. Rather than focus on the operating system, as a site owner you should be more concerned about the reliabiltiy of the host, what sort of facilities they offer, how easy is the control panel to use, and how good is their support team. Focussing on the operating sytsem is missing the point. There are good and bad hosts using both operating systems, and good and bad administrators who will determine how well your site performs and how reliabile it all is. That doesn't come down to the operating system used, but the people who run the hosting. Just because you use a PC doesn't mean that you should choose Windows hosting. IF you need to administer a server then your knoweldge might be useful, but if you're using shared hosting or a control panel (and not managing a dedicated server or VPS) then the operating system is mostly irrelevant. Just as there are with Windows. And that's what it's really down to - personal choice of the server administrator. It's nothing to do with one being better than the other, or one being more secure, faster, more reliable, or any other measure you want select. It's down to personal choice, experience, skill, and knowledge, but when it comes to shared hosting then it's even simpler than that - it's down to the host you feel most comfortable working with, not the platform they are using to run their servers. As a shared hosting customer the only time you really need to choose between a Linux or Windows host is when your site uses ASP and ASP.NET then your only choice is Windows. For any other common programming or scripting language, it doesn't matter what OS your host runs.
Security is totally depends on system administrator and i think the basic difference is the script's coding platform .