Linux is among the most popular OSs for servers. There are a number of different distributions that use the same core, but the great majority have several things in common - they are 100 % free to use, which cuts down the overall cost of the web hosting service as license fees shall not be included in what you have to pay; they're quite simple to maintain; and last, but not least, they are way more secure as compared with competitor OSs, since random files, especially virus-infected ones, just cannot be executed on the web server. That way, you’ll be able to enjoy a reliable service and spend the time developing and advertising your websites, not being concerned about security problems. Countless Linux-based machines use the Apache web server to handle the HTTP traffic, since this software is incredibly fast and is also uncomplicated to maintain and personalize as per the requirements of the web hosting provider. A Linux server with Apache is the ideal software environment for your websites and it isn't a coincidence that lots of popular script-driven applications out there require LAMP, which stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Stable Linux with Apache in Shared Web Hosting

All the servers that are a part of our revolutionary cloud web hosting platform run Linux as a way to guarantee their fast and reliable operations, which will consequently give you much better overall website performance. That's valid for each and every website that you host in a shared web hosting account with our company. Every single part of the web hosting service (email messages, databases, files) shall be taken care of by its own cluster of servers, so only 1 type of processes will run on a given web server, that will contribute to the fast loading speed of your sites even more. You may use HTML, Perl, Python, JavaScript and just about any other web development language for your sites, because they all can run on a Linux hosting server. Additionally we use the Apache web server, because our experience over the years indicates that this is probably the ideal software of its sort.

Stable Linux with Apache in Semi-dedicated Servers

We've made a decision to use Linux on our machines too, given that no other OS can match its overall flexibility and without it, we would not have had the opportunity to build our custom website hosting platform in which all semi-dedicated server accounts are created. The platform incorporates substantial clusters of servers, each one handling a particular part of the hosting service - databases, e-mails, files, the CP, etc. The effect of mixing this custom setup with Linux is an incredibly reliable, secure and speedy service with zero downtime. What's more, the web access is addressed by Apache, simply because it is highly customizable and supports a considerable amount of modules and web programming languages including PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, and so forth. Our semi-dedicated server packages will give you all the speed and security you want for your sites and we've made a lot of software tweaks to ensure that we will meet our uptime guarantee.