Hi friends, I'm planning to start blogging in the wordpress platform. So at the time of hosting registration it shows two option 'windows' and 'linux'. I dont have any idea about these things. And I dont know what is the difference between these two. My doubts are 1) If I want to install wordpress, then which one will be good- windows or linux? 2) Which hosting plan do I choose? Is 50 mb space enough in the beginning? Hope you will help me thanks,
You definitely want Linux. Space depends on exactly how much you will be putting on your blog. 50MB will work, although that is considered a very small hosting plan.
Definately go with Linux, you should have no problems then 50mb will be fine if you just plan to add plain text blog posts, however think about the furute if your blog is running many years from now your db of posts will probably then out grow this, also do you plan on adding images to your blog if so think about linking from flikr for example so you can save space.
WordPress is running on PHP. It doesn't matter Linux or Windows hosting, as long as it does support PHP and MySQL, then you can run WordPress blog over there. But I do recommend you to go with Linux hosting, as it's more secure and stable.