Frequently Asked Questions Listing - Windows web hosting


Windows web hosting
Q) Define the demerits of Windows Server?
Q) What counts as disk space?
Q) What do you understand by the term Windows Server?
Q) Define the merits of Windows Server?
Q) Can I install my own ASP components or if not can you do it for me ?
Q) Differentiate Unix and Linux?

Q) Define the demerits of Windows Server?

Ans) Unlike LINUX, Windows Server requires more system resource. Windows Server can be run by only powerful machine. It's reputation in terms of server stability is not good. The Windows Server needs reboot more frequent than LINUX. If you are using Windows Server hosting services, you've to invest a lot of money in the development tools. Most of them are Microsoft products. The costs of applications to run your web site are usually higher than that of LINUX. For example, you can find a lot of free scripts to run web board, chat room, web stats, email (and more) for your LINUX-based web site, but you won't find many free applications in Windows Server world. What programming languages do your hosting accounts support ? HTML, DHTML, XML, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, ASP.Net, Perl, PHP, Python, CGI based applications, and Cold Fusion (additional charge for Cold Fusion) . Please test all scripts locally before uploading them to our servers! Our servers are production servers, not development machines. Poorly written and untested scripts can potentially affect performance on the entire web server by consuming excessive processor and/or memory usage. Any scripts found to consume excessive resources will be disabled and the entire account may potentially be disabled or terminated without warning or refund. It is of utmost importance to provide reliable service to our customers. We cannot and will not allow scripts to degrade overall server performance.

Q) What counts as disk space?

Ans) All of your web files, logs, email stored on the server and databases.

Q) What do you understand by the term Windows Server?

Ans) Windows 2003 Server is the latest operating system for server developed by Microsoft. It's the new version of Windows NT Server. The new Windows 2003 Server was built on NT technology. The interface of the software is similar to that of Windows 2000. It's gaining market share due to the ease of use.

Q) Define the merits of Windows Server?

Ans) Windows Server is developed and sold by Microsoft. The company continually provides supports and updates. Users who are familiar with Windows will find themselves comfortable for using Windows Server. Most of the people who uses Windows Server hosting utilize Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. This is the main reason for the people to turn towards Windows Server hosting. Users can develop website using familiar interface of Microsoft tools such as Microsoft FrontPage, Visual Interdev, and Microsoft Access. Users can develop a database-driven web site with ASP using Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL as the database.

Q) Can I install my own ASP components or if not can you do it for me ?

Ans) For security and stability reasons we do not allow users to add any additional components. However you can now request additional components to be added and we will install them if the demand is high and it would be useful to other users.

Q) Differentiate Unix and Linux?

Ans) The Unix operating system was developed in the early seventies and rewritten in the programming language 'C' which gave it the ability to outlive the hardware it lived on which was a very significant development. Then many years later an operating system kernel for the FSF's project to develop a free version of Unix developed by a man named Linus Torvalds which Linus then named Linux. There are many versions of Unix and Linux which have different strengths and weaknesses regarding speed, security and features, etc.