Monday, February 4, 2013

What should I know about Linux Hosting?

Q. If I use Linux Hosting, will I be able to use MS Publisher as a design template? If not, what design software do you recommend?

A. As a long time Linux geek, I have no love for anything made by Microsoft. Publisher is NOT a web design tool. Published is designed for making brochures, flyers, booklets, etc. The fact that you can convert a publisher file to an HTML format doesn't mean it's a web site tool. In fact, the HTML code rendered from Microsoft applications (yes, including FrontPage) is usually crap.

Their generated code contains a lot of proprietary stuff that's not standard in HTML, and it can cause problems between broswers.

here's what a Linux host usually has: Linux servers (Red Hat Linux is popular), Apache Web Server, MySQL for databases, and they usually support scripting languages like PHP and Perl. Some hosts will also provide support for Python and Ruby.

For web design, I always recommend a decent text editor that forces your to learn how to use XHTML and style sheets. once you have full control of how your content is built, you'll find yourself building much better web pages.

If you need a tool, try something called nVu. It's a free HTML editor that works on both Windows and Linux clients.

Learn to code in standard XHTML. Then, all your stuff will work for all clients, no matter what system you host on.

Whats the difference between Linux web hosting and Windows web hosting?
Q. Heya Please tell em what the difference is between linux web hosting and windows web hosting. I made my site by dreamweaver does that affect either of the 2 i should choose please tell me thanx!

A. Windows and Linux often use two different web server applications. Windows sites use the Windows IIS server, while nearly all Linux sites use Apache.

Linux sites focus on PHP, Perl and other open-source script languages for server side scripting. Windows-based sites use ,NET and ASP technologies. They might also offer support for PHP.

Linux sites offer MySQL as the database for backend content storage. Windows sites will probably offer SQL Server, though some offer the Windows versions of MySQL as well.

There shouldn't be any difference between the two if you use strict web standards in your HTML. However, you need to be aware of the fact that, since Dreamweaver is a Windows-only product, it may insert some non-standard things into your HTML. Frontpage also does this.

As long as you stick to accepted web standards and don't use any Windows-centric stuff in your site, you should have no problems with either one.

If I switch from Microsoft server hosting to Linux package would my sites still work?
Q. i want to install cre loaded and for that i need linux hosting. if i switch to linux hosting would my old sites that i created on my windows machine still work? may be its a silly question but i have no idea how linux works.

A. I surfed over to CRE loaded. They never say what the backend is... Zend? Joomla!? etc.but it does appear to be a framework with limited customization and their main strength is they swear they are PCI compliant. So you question gets down to the database??? What database did you use?

I can not find any specs on System Requirements. Maybe it is in the FAQ installation PDF download which I didn't bother with. I don't see the Linux requirement. Basically, Linux works because of folder restrictions.

From the looks of their Membership fees (which seem high) they host, you connect, you have a limit on support option contacts. In other words, they look like a php stack framework like WordPress, only for eCommerce. Other options with your own ISP would include Zend, Joomla! and Drupal -- but you have a serious learning curve ahead of you.



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