While selecting people get confused at very first step whether to choose Unix or Windows. Well, it depends upon your Web site applications and many more things.  For this you should compare this two platforms and then decide.

Windows have a server platform called Microsoft Windows Server , while UNIX is an Open source. The source code of Linux is available freely to any one. It is a free operating system while the Windows Server needs a licensed copy i.e. it needs purchase. UNIX is contributed by thousand of the users and hence it is updated frequently than Windows Server. In complexity UNIX server is more complex as it is an open source.

If you go for the Windows Web hosting , Windows server supports almost all Microsoft products which includes FrontPage, Visual Interdev, and Microsoft Access. It also supports ASP (Active Server Pages) which is very popular scripting languages and used widely for building dynamic websites, and data driven Webpages.

Most of the times User builds their web sites on their own, its always worth considering that the most CGI Programs which are available today online are developed on UNIX. This simple means that this applications performs best and suits UNIX at their best.

Security and reliability is one of the main concerns.  There are multiples views  in this, many of them go for windows being more secure, while some say that the UNIX is the best in security. UNIX is more faster and secure according to some users. People use windows widely and this gives people more time to exploit more flaws in this making this system more insecure. If we see UNIX platforms this OS is also hacked many times over the years.

If we consider the performance both the platforms perform well. At both the ends the developers work hard to gain better security , reliability and best features.

We have listed only few differences and similarities between these two servers i.e.  Windows server Hosting and UNIX.  You have take a look the type of application that your website is going to use. The cost related to the server operating system, the specific technology you are going to use runs better on UNIX or Windows Server.

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In the Microsoft windows Server operating system remote access technologies allows the clients to perform administrative tasks as well as they can work on the system as if they are working locally.

Components.

Telnet
Dial-up Remote access
Terminal Services are included in the Windows Server 2003 as remote access tevhnologies.

Telnet.

Windows 2003 and XP uses the telnet clients and telnet server components, which allows the users to establish the connection remotely based on the telnet protocol.Telnet allows you to create a remote console session on the host. We can run command line programs, shell programs,shell commands and scripts in a remote console session, using local command prompt, as you are locally logged on.

Telnet Client and Telnet Server are suited for admistrating the remote clients especially in mixed environments. That simply means the different environments can connect to each other as clients and server through Telnet. Using telnet offers you an advantage for minimal bandwidth and memory and processor resource are not enough
This is because Telnet Clients and Telnet Server use less memory and processor time than other remote management tools, and Telnet clients and servers transmit only plaintext (unencrypted characters) across the network.

Dial-Up Remote Access:

This is the technology that is available as apart of the Remote Access Services in the Microsoft Windows server 2003. Using the telecommunication infrastructure a dial-up client creates a temporary physical circuit(Virtual circuit) to a port on the Remote Access Server. If the connection is established i.e if the server accepts the dial-up connection from the client, the server forwards data packets between client and the network to which the server is attached.

The connection established between the remote access server(physical or logical) and the remote access client is created using dial-up equipment.Depending on the type of connection used,  The dial-up equipment and network infrastructure can vary.

Terminal Services:

This component of the windows server 2003 delivers the latest Windows-based applications and Windows server desktop.It provides the ability to establish multiple simultaneous client sessions on Windows Server 2003, allows same set of applications to run on diverse types of Desktop hardware. It also provides remote Desktop Administration, which reduces the overhead associated with remote access.

Almost all Organizations are always in a search for ways to reduce the costs of ownership and this is one of the major goals of Terminal Services. Terminal Services accomplish this goal more easily and cost-effectively

Terminal services allows:

* Centrally deploy and manage Windows-based applications.
* Remotely administer Windows Server 2003-based computers.

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