Linux hosting is a great solution for PHP and MySQL websites and applications along with all round web hosting. Linux hosting is not only better than Microsoft hosting (in my opinion), it's also usually cheaper in the long run. Generally speaking, Linux hosting is the cheapest reliable solution. It is an advanced web hosting platform which is excellent for web hosting and has many features windows hosting does not support and it is suited for various high performance requirements such as email solutions, and mysql database hosting. Linux hosting is compatible with PHP which is considered to be one of the most popular languages for programming and it is the widely used hosting platform worldwide. On the whole, Linux hosting is faster and easier to use, especially since people are developing easy to use graphic user interface for technophobes that believe they are incapable of working with computers. Finally, Linux hosting is independent from what operating system you run at home and it really should not matter and or affect your web hosting services. Some opines that for certain particular programs Linux hosting is better while for certain others Windows is better. Another significant advantage of Linux hosting is you can have cPanel control panel on your Linux hosting plan which is the most popular, easy to use and probably the best control panel in the Web Hosting Industry. If you don't use ASP scripting or Access or SQLServer databases on your web site then Linux hosting is for you.
We aren’t here to discuss who is right or wrong, just the fact that Linux had a pretty grassroots past and is now at the forefront of hosting, Linux hosting. First of all, there is a lot of support for the operating system and if you have a question, it can be answered quickly, but this can be said for Windows as well, but sometimes, there are no answers for Windows, where as Linux hosting usually has a solution to any of the problems it has and if something does not work properly or is not compatible, there would be a developer that can implement an upgrade and there you go, you get what you need, FREE (most of the time). When we talk about Linux hosting, we often come across the acronym "LAMP" which stand for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl. The individual letters in this word stand for the key elements of the hosting platform.
What is the difference between UNIX hosting and Windows hosting?. If you need to support Microsoft products such as ASP, MS Access, or VBScript, then Windows hosting would be better. Furthermore, if you are comfortable with IIS and do not have the time to understand how UNIX works, Windows hosting would again be a better choice. First of all, just because you use Windows at home does not mean you should use Windows hosting. But Linux hosting has better support and is becoming the standard choice around.