We offer web-hosting on two platforms Linux Hosting and Windows Hosting. We offen asked which hosting one should choose. We highly recommend Linux Hosting unless user has application designed for Windows Platform. Here are some more points one should consider while choosing hosting platform.
There is myth that as you are using Windows XP or related version as desktop operating system that's why you should have Windows Hosting. That is not correct. Windows operating system is widely used for Desktop Users, however Linux is more popular operating system on Web Servers.
Below statistics from Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) shows popularity of Linux based server for hosting purpose.
