Linux is a popular OS, which is commonly used for web servers, due to the fact it features a wide variety of advantages over other OSs. It is regarded as the most solid OS out there and owing to the way it works, corrupted files will simply not work. Due to the fact Linux is free to use, no license fees shall be added to the price that you will have to pay for your website hosting service. That, consequently, makes it possible for the provider to customize the Operating system depending on what they and their clients want, taking away unwanted packages to enhance the Operating system and the server’s efficiency. Linux servers typically include the Apache web server software, that processes site access requests. Apache is furthermore free and customizable, not to mention that it's extremely quick and light with regard to the system resources it requires. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is the software environment that many of the most famous script applications require – WordPress, Joomla™, Moodle, and so on. The LAMP configuration is the most popular one around the globe, due to the fact that it's stable and easy to take care of.

Stable Linux with Apache in Shared Web Hosting

All of the servers which are an integral part of our progressive cloud website hosting platform run Linux to be able to guarantee their fast and secure functioning, that will subsequently contribute to far better overall website performance. That's valid for any site that you host in a shared web hosting account with our company. Every part of the hosting service (e-mail messages, databases, files) will be addressed by its own group of servers, so only one type of processes will run on a particular server, that will contribute to the rapid loading speed of your Internet sites even more. You can use HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python and just about any other web development language for your Internet sites, because they all can run on a Linux web server. We use the Apache web server, as our experience through the years has shown that this is probably the best piece of software of its sort.