Is The Windows Hosting Platform Becoming Dominant?

Posted By: Dimitar A. March 22, 2006

Windows platform is a the most popular one when it comes to Personal Computers. All we know tahta. At the same time web hosting market has been dominated from Unix/Linux OS not just because they are cheaper or free but because they seemed to be more reliable. Times changing and more and more web hosts migrate to Windows.

The world’s leading domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is transitioning 4.5 million domains to be hosted on Windows(R)-based hosting platform. Upon completion of the migration, Go Daddy will have moved all its parked domains from Linux to the Windows OS.

That means sooner or later Windows would become preferable web hosting platform for the most website owners.

“Microsoft provides an efficient and scalable operating platform, while also providing the performance needed to handle our extraordinary growth.” says the GoDaddy president Warren Adelman.

Microsoft has announced that, the growing number of independent software vendors creating applications for Windows-based hosting enables GoDaddy and other web hosts to introduce new services to its customers easily and cost-effectively.

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About the Author

Dimitar A.
Dimitar is founder of the global Cloud & Infrastructure Hosting provider HostColor.com & European Cloud IaaS company RAX. He has two Decades-long experience in the web hosting industry and in building and managing Cloud computing infrastructure and IT ecosystems. Dimitar is also political scientist who has published books "The New American State" and "The New Polity". "The New American State" is one of the best current political books. It is focused on the change of the American political process. It offers a perspective on how the fourth industrial revolution, also called the Digital Revolution and Industry 4.0, marks the beginning of an era of deterritorialization.