Choosing between Unix and Windows Web Hosting Service
Web Hosting Platform - Unix vs Windows
It is perfectly fine, and in fact quite common, to host your web site on our Unix web hosting service while using a Windows or Macintosh computer to design and publish it.
| Quadra Features | 
Unix Hosting |
Windows Hosting |
| Operating System | FreeBSD | Microsoft Windows Server |
| Web Server | Apache | Internet Information Server (IIS) |
| Server side processing | Unix web hosting is Ideal for PHP, Perl or Python powered web sites. Runs PHP in either mod_php or CGI mode, runs CGI through suExec. | Windows web hosting is ideal for ASP or ASP.NET powered web sites. Also support PHP and Perl in CGI Mode. |
| Database Support | MySQL, PostgreSQL | Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
| Account Access | FTP, Multiple Sub-FTP Accounts, Virtual FTP, ssh*, scp*, sftp*, rsync, WebShell (Web-based File Manager) | FTP, Multiple Sub-FTP Accounts, FrontPage, WebShell (Web-based file manager) |
| FrontPage Support | Not available | Fully supported |
| Software Support | Standard unix tools, NetPBM, ImageMagick, Perl Modules, etc. | COM Objects, .NET Framework, ISAPI DLLs. |
| Email System | There is no difference in email features. Email services are served by a separate server running on unix (FreeBSD) for greatest reliability and flexibility. | |
| US and Australian Based Servers | See Unix hosting packages | See Windows hosting packages |
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