Below is the continuation of the previous article: Frequently Used Terms in Web Hosting Industry : Part 1

MS SQL
It is a database management system which is a Microsoft product. MS SQL databases are offered only with Windows Web Hosting packages.

MySQL
MySQL is a database server.It is most commonly used with PHP.MySQL can be availed with Linux Web Hosting packages as well as Windows Hosting packages.

Perl
Perl is preferred and renowned scripting or programming language.It is considered to be one of the most powerful languages used for scripting. It is most commonly used for CGI scripts. With Perl building and testing of programs get simplified.

PHP
PHP is an Open source, server side HTML embedded scripting language that is typically used for creating dynamic web pages. Since it is released under Open source GNU, it is freely downloadable. Web masters prefer to use it on Linux/Unix Servers.

POP3: Post Office Protocol
It is a type of protocol that  is used for receiving E-mails. When using an E-mail client to retrieve email messages, the client communicates with the mail server via POP3.

Primary DNS : Primary Domain Name Server
It is the Primary domain name server for the customer domains. These are the DNS IP numbers often preceeded as ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com.

Root Server
Its a machine thats loaded with softwares and data that is required to locate the name servers which contain authoritative data for the top level domains.

SMTP : Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
This is main protocol that is used to send  and receive e-mails over the Internet.

SSL : Secure Socket Layer
It is a protocol designed to enable encrypted and authenticated communications across the World Wide Web.SSL is usually used for secure communication between web browser and the servers. The URL that starts with “https” indicates that the website is secured with SSL.SSL Certificates are installed on the domains of websites that involve online transactions.

TCP/IP
TCP/IP is a protocol that defines the Internet. It indicates how data can be transmitted between hosts. It is most widely used standard of communication. This set of communication protocols to connect to host servers over the Internet.

Telnet
It is a program that is used to login from and Internet site to the other. It is actually a protocol used to access machines placed at remote remote locations. You can connect to any server over the Internet that has telnet server.

TLD : Top Level Domains
It is the suffix of the domain name for example .co., .org , .gov, .net etc. It is the highest level in the hierarchy of doman extensions.

Tomcat
Tomcat is a Java based web server software created to run Java Server Pages (JSP) in the web applications.

Unix
Unix is an operating system that is used on business class computers often known as servers. It is a similar operating system to DOS and MacOS. It is one of the most common operating systems used on servers.

Virtual Server
A virtual server is nothing but a web server that shares its resources with multiple users hosted on a single physical server. In this, users get to experience dedicated server like environment.You are provided with complete admin access of the server.As a matter of fact, a VPS Hosting package is one of the most preferred type of web hosting solution.

Web Server
A web server is nothing but a computer that delivers web pages.It is important that the server is connected to the World Wide Web inorder to deliver webpages upon request.

Web Site Traffic
Website traffic refers to the volume of visitors visiting a website. The tool that measures the traffic is referred as the website traffic reporting tool.

XML : eXtensible Markup Language.
XML is a programming language which allows designers to create their own tags to indicate specific information. W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is a widely used standard which facilitates the interchange of data across computer applications. It is similar to the language used for Web pages HTML.

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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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