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What is Linux Web Hosting?

Web hosting is at the core of any website launch. But what exactly is web hosting? An online service that provides space on the Internet for websites is what is called Web Hosting. If you want other people to see your website after making it, the next thing to do is to publish (or upload) it to a web hosting service.   This is what makes it possible for visitors to connect to your web server to surf and download the pages of your website. However with advancement in technology, there are now different types of web hosting services and one of them is Linux web hosting.


By definition, Linux Web hosting is when a company is allowed to use Linux, a free, open-source operating system that is based on Unix to build their web sites. In other words, it is the provision of servers that use Linux as their operating system for hosting a website. It is as a matter of fact, one of the most common open source platform used for web development these days and it has the ability to support a variety o... read more