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The menace of viruses, spamming and hacking is also quite less with Linux Hosting ( linux web hosting ) . First of all,this is contribute to the strong constructure of Linux Server ,second,contribute to lots of expenditure effective softwares acceptable for protection on Linux Platform.

The following are the advantages of using Linux based web server compared to Windows based web server:

Stable and Robust: Linux/Unix operating systems has traditionally been believed to be very stable and robust. A web site housed on a Linux running system will have fairly high up-time (of the order of 99.9%). Of course, other factors such as power supply, network admin skills, and network load etc. also matter when it comes to maintaining the system uptime.

Not high expenditure of ownership :The Linux OS comes free of expenditure (or at fairly unimportant expenditure ,often expenditure of distribution). Also, it has full fledged server, and desk top applications that comes free along with the OS. These server applications (such as FTP, Web Server, DNS Server, File Server etc.) being free, are also very stable.

User Friendly: When it comes to web hosting ( windows web hosting ) , it is easy to host on Linux web servers. The process of creating and hosting is almost same for Linux and Windows Web Servers
. If you want to use a Windows based tool such as Front Page for uploading a web site on to a Linux based web server, make sure that the Front Page extensions are enabled. This is necessary if you download the service using HTTP Front Page. Front Page also makes it able to upload a web site make use of FTP. It is necessary for you to choose ftp://www.yourwebsite.com for up loading making use of front page FTP selection. Note that if you select ?Front Page Extensions?; during web site design, you must enable Front Page extensions on a Linux web server also. These days, all Linux web servers are coming with installable Front Page extensions, and this should pose no problem for hosting ( windows web hosting ) on a Linux platform. You can use almost all types of file extensions (or scripts) when using Linux web server.