Linux hosting with dedicated managed servers
What standard software is installed?
| Software | Description |
| MySQL | A comprehensive, open-source database server |
| PHP | HTML embedded scripted language used to create dynamic web pages |
| CGI (Perl) | A useful interface that allows web servers to perform data functions and interact with users |
| Apache | A secure and efficient web server over which you have complete control |
| A mail server for fast, effective e-mail | |
| Wu-FTPD | A popular FTP server facillitating rapid file transfer |
Advantages of using Linux
- Standard, modern platform Offers a very stable, multi-user, multitasking environment on your PC hardware, at almost no monetary cost for the software.
- Linux is not owned as long as there are Linux users, Linux cannot possibly be put out of business. The Linux General Public License (GPL) ensures that development/maintenance will be provided.
- Advanced graphical user interface - Linux uses a standard, network-transparent X-windowing system with a "window manager".
- Applications built by researchers - The software in this category is typically not very easy to use, but if you want the power, it is the best software that humanity has in these areas.
- Learning platform Access to all the operating system source codes is free, along with many state of the art development and programming languages and tools.
- Unsurpassed computing power -portability, and flexibility.
- Freedom from viruses Linux is too secure an operating system for any viruses to spread with any degree of efficiency.
- Linux is non-commercial so the best computing practices are offered, along with code legibility and correctness, security, flexibility, usefulness, coolness and performance.
- Linux is harder to update than Windows.
- Due to there being no control panel, its more difficult to use.
- A new system needs to be learnt as Linux is not as familiar as Windows.
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