Linux is an Operating System, that isn't that frequently used for desktop machines, but is one of the most popular OSs for servers. It's absolutely free, so you shall not have to pay any license charges as part of your hosting payments. Linux is furthermore regarded as being the most risk-free Operating System available and thanks to the permissions which files have and also the file types that can be run, virus files which could infect a normal computer will simply not be executed on a Linux-based web server. Additionally, the OS is totally free, so it could be modified with no limitations, so as to satisfy the requirements of the website hosting company and their customers. This also implies that needless software packages can be removed to make the OS lighter and quicker, that may directly contribute to significantly better hosting server performance. Lots of Linux machines have the Apache web server installed on them, because this software is also 100 % free, fast and stable. It's the most popular web server available and is part of the LAMP bundle that many script apps, including WordPress and Joomla™, need. LAMP is an abbreviation for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Stable Linux with Apache in Hosting
All of the web servers that are a part of our progressive cloud hosting platform run Linux as a way to ensure their fast and reliable operations, that will in turn lead to much better overall site functionality. That is valid for any site that you host within a hosting account with us. Each and every part of the web hosting service (emails, databases, files) shall be taken care of by its own group of servers, so just one type of processes shall run on a certain machine, that will contribute to the rapid loading speed of your sites even more. You can use HTML, Perl, Python, JavaScript and just about any other web development language for your Internet sites, since they all can run on a Linux web server. We also use the Apache web server, considering that our experience throughout the years indicates that this is probably the best software of its sort.
Stable Linux with Apache in Semi-dedicated Hosting
We have chosen to use Linux on our machines also, given that no other OS can match its overall flexibility and without it, we would not have had the opportunity to create our custom hosting platform where all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. The platform is made up of large clusters of servers, each handling a specific part of the website hosting service - databases, emails, files, the Control Panel, and so forth. The end result of merging this custom setup with Linux is an exceptionally reliable, secure and fast service with basically no downtime. In addition, the web access is addressed by Apache, simply because it is extremely customizable and supports a considerable amount of modules and web programming languages including PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, etc. Our semi-dedicated server plans will offer you all the speed and dependability that you want for your websites and we've made a considerable amount of software improvements to ensure that we shall meet our uptime guarantee.