If you are running a small business website, it is quite likely that this site will be hosted on a server which is using the ever popular free Linux operating system.
There are lots of good reasons for this and here is a little more background on Linux and its overall advantages as a server operating system.
Linux was developed in the early 1990s by Linus Thorvalds a Finnish Computer Science student. Thorvalds was driven by a passion for open source software which was fully open to all users both for development and deployment.
Partly because it was free to develop for and to use, but also because of its technical excellence, Linux soon developed an international following. Skilful coders all around the world were keen to enhance it’s codebase.
By the mid-to-late 1990’s Linux was also established as the default operating system for web servers, and therefore for web hosting. The reasons are largely as follows:
-Stability: months, even years, of continuous uptime are not uncommon for Linux servers. This can only be good news for the websites hosted on these servers, as their potential for extended uptime is also high.
-Cost: being free to distribute and use, there are none of the recurring license costs that come with other operating systems. For corporations running multiple servers the cost benefits are patently significant.
-Security: the operating system has been coded cleverly to shield itself powerfully from intrusive hacking and viruses.
Many of the packages that come with affordable UK web hosting from EUKHost are Linux server based. Therefore, your site will benefit automatically from the reassuring stable and secure base of Linux server.
You’ll also, with web hosting by EUKHost, benefit from the in-depth Linux operating system knowledge of our support technicians, with who are available 24/7 and 365 days per year.