Linux is a well known OS, which is commonly used for web servers, given that it provides a variety of advantages over other OSs. It is considered to be the most secure OS available and owing to the way it operates, infected files shall simply not work. As Linux is free to use, no license fees will be calculated in the price that you will have to pay for your website hosting service. This, in turn, allows for the provider to customize the Operating system depending on what they and their clients want, taking away unnecessary packages to improve the OS and the server’s functionality. Linux servers normally come with the Apache web server software, that processes Internet site access requests. Apache is furthermore absolutely free and customizable, not to mention that it is really quick and light in terms of the system resources it requires. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is the software environment which some of the most popular script apps require – WordPress, Joomla™, Moodle, etcetera. The LAMP configuration is the most commonly used one around the globe, because it's stable and easy to maintain.

Stable Linux with Apache in Shared Hosting

All of the web servers which are an integral part of our progressive cloud website hosting platform run Linux so as to ensure their fast and stable functioning, that will consequently contribute to much better overall site performance. This is valid for every website that you host inside a shared hosting account with us. Every part of the website hosting service (e-mails, databases, files) shall be managed by its own group of machines, so only one type of processes will run on a particular machine, that will contribute to the fast loading speed of your sites even more. You may use HTML, Python, Perl, JavaScript and just about any other web development language for your Internet sites, as they all can run on a Linux machine. Additionally we use the Apache web server, as our experience over time indicates that this is probably the ideal software of its kind.

Stable Linux with Apache in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you purchase a semi-dedicated server account for your websites, you'll be able to take advantage of a protected and efficient web hosting service on our innovative hosting platform. Linux-powered clusters of servers will provide you with the system resources and the uptime that you need, as this Operating System meets our requirements and allows us to customize the software environment to get the most out of the platform, whose structure contributes to the speed and dependability of the service even more, since your files, databases, e-mails, statistics, and so on., shall have their own cluster to deal with them. To boost the efficiency of your sites more, we use the Apache web server, as our experience reveals that it's the best suited one for our custom made platform because it's effective, yet light and fast.