Need help to select hosting server platform (IIS or Linux)

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kra
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Need help to select hosting server platform (IIS or Linux)

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Hello,

My website is developed and designed using PHP-MySQL on Windows Server 2003 (IIS) platform.

Now, I am going to host my website on the server so I want to know that

Should I get hosting server with PHP-MySQL & Windows Server 2003 support?

Or

Hosting server with PHP-MySQL & Linux can work for me without any problem?

Please reply so I can decide for what I should do.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: Need help to select hosting server platform (IIS or Linux)

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My opinion:

Short answer: Linux.
Long answer: whatever <whoever is dealing with the server most> knows best.

For 99% of developers it won't matter, but that other 1% will discover that some things are easier (and possible!) on Linux but not on Windows.
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Re: Need help to select hosting server platform (IIS or Linux)

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tasairis wrote:but that other 1% will discover that some things are easier (and possible!) on Linux but not on Windows.
Or that great rarity, things that are easier (and possible!) on Windows but not on Linux.
e.g. .COM
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