Windows Dedicated Servers
In early days of the Web , Linux was taken as the dominant platform for the servers.As the windows made progress in its server capabilities and the support by the Microsoft technologies made the windows the most preferred environment for the Dedicated servers as well. The journey of the windows towards Servers started from windows 2000 which was the secured platform, trying to reply to the comments of in-secured OS as compared to the linux OS. This OS was similar to 98 and also easy to use. The OS got advanced with the essence of Windows 2003 with lots more advanced features making the windows the powerful server platform, with each of its edition windows have provided different and more advanced features.
Windows 2008 was the latest edition with the most useful features, with considering the present and suture requirements of the Servers. With this edition, It became the rival in the market for the Linux platform for Server administration.
Advantages of Windows for Dedicated Servers:
As with the advantages of having a Dedicated Servers itself, we have some advantages of selecting the right environment on it.
Productivity: The Console GPMC provides the interface to administrate the system in a better manner by deploying the group policies for multiple domains.
Functionalities : With the support from Microsoft Share point services, Microsoft ActiveSync, windows makes it an ideal platform for deployment of multiple websites that needs a lot of information sharing. With the ability of supporting thousands of websites within organization, it is one of the giant OS, it also helps in distribution within a cluster of servers and increased reliability.
Dynamic Services : Windows is capable working the cross-platform UDDI functionality. This highly helps to achieve the dynamic, flexible infrastructure for a variety of web services.
Compatibility : Windows can support the maximum number of advanced technologies. Many of the tools are common between Linux and Windows. Windows has the advantage of being a Microsoft technology as all the Microsoft technology works best on windows. This highly adds the value to the hosting.
Performance : With the essence of IIS, the web server platform for the windows, it provides a great robust and stable architecture for building the dynamic websites.
Restoration of data : Data restoration is the important thing when you are dealing with high amount of data and critical data, any user can restore the useful and important files. This can save money and allows data to be safe.
Faster : This new windows for server is efficient enough to handle the loads of traffic and it is even faster. The .Net technologies integrated into the OS makes the system better.
The system is not only limited to the Microsoft technologies but it can support all the major technologies such as PHP, MySQL. While Linux is the operating system which can not work with the ASP and related technologies.
All in All we can say that for the best performance of the Server, Windows can help you at the best.
I advise my friends that linux Operating system is really very much more advanced than Windows xp nonetheless none of these people have yet swapped!