Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft.

icrosoft has taken two parallel routes in operating systems. One route has been the home user and the other has been the professional IT user.

Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 have been most sucessfull to establish Microsoft in web hosting business due to their security and supported features.

Windows hosting is popular amongst people who wish to have asp, asp.net, mssql, vb, Frontpage oriented hosting for their websites. Being a paid product, Windows Hosting is expensive as compared to Linux hosting.

The most popular control panels available for Windows Hosting are Helm, Plesk, Hostingcontroller, etc..

Windows hosting use IIS webservers that come along with Windows 2000 and 2003 versions.

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system family. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open source development; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.

Predominantly known for its use in servers, Linux is used as an operating system for a wider variety of computer hardware than any other operating system, including desktop computers, supercomputers,mainframes, and embedded devices such as cellphones. Linux is packaged for different uses in Linux distributions, which contain the kernel along with a variety of other software packages tailored to requirements.

Webhosting services are offered on various OS platforms such as Linux, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD etc; Linux Hosting being the most popular amongst them due to its stability and economical solutions.

There are various flavours of Linux servers available for hosting such as :

Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Gentoo Linux etc.

Linux hosting not only offers stable and multilevel hosting solutions, but also is the most economical way to have your business establish presence over the web.

iThinkHost is proud to have selected Wordpress as a blogging medium for its hosting services.

Intention behind installing the blog is enriching our support resources with the recommended solutions to various common topics and issues faced including discussions / suggestions / updates etc, and publish them on the website in the form of the blog.