Difference between UNIX & Windows Hosting

Differences between UNIX & Windows hosting
If you want to run PHP applications such as Wordpress, Joomla or Typo3, we strongly recommend choosing a UNIX hosting.

Here are the most important differences:

UNIX hosting

+ PHP is fast
+ WordPress Toolkit
+ Joomla Toolkit
+ WordPress, Joomla etc. run up to 30x faster than on Windows hosting
+ Apache2 web server
+ NGINX proxy (speeds up websites)
+ Ruby support
+ Web Application Filter
+ File names are case-sensitive

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Windows hosting

+ ASP.NET
+ Classic ASP
+ ASP.NET Core 2.x and 3.x
+ Microsoft SQL Server
+ ODBC data sources (e.g. .mdb Access databases)
+ IIS web server
+ Dedicated IIS application pool
+ Hotlink protection
+ Virtual directories

– PHP is slow
– WordPress Toolkit is missing
– Joomla Toolkit is missing
– WordPress, Joomla etc. run slower and with limitations
– File names are not case-sensitive

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