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Unix Web Hosting

February 1st, 2007

A growing number of hosting companies are now offering customers a choice of several variants of UNIX or Microsoft Windows NT. Of those that offer a choice of both operating systems, the bulk of these vendors advise their customers to use UNIX unless the customer has specific reasons to run NT. Most problems faced by UNIX and the UNIX family can be solved with quality training and careful planning. UNIX is still, even after all these years, considered the most reliable, high-performance operating system on the market

From the user’s point of view, the UNIX operating system is easy to learn and use, and presents few of the usual impediments to getting the job done. It is hard, however, for the beginner to know where to start, and how to make the best use of the facilities available

Application Interface
UNIX’s ‘unique’ mix of C and assembly implemented an OS, instead of the traditional “input command-process command-output process.” Due to this, features whether simple or sophisticated were quite easily done using C language. So why was this revolutionary? When UNIX was distributed, users and programmers could write applications using only C and make full use of the operating systems capabilities.

Networking
In 1984, UC Berkeley released a version of UNIX, which allowed for TCP/IP networking protocols. The version was called BSD. Networking support included e-mail, file transfers, remote login, etc. Future systems based on this added multiple networking capabilities using Ethernet.

Interface
UNIX is an excellent operating system for experienced programmers. The OS was designed for programmers with all of the features a programmer would need to design, implement, and upgrade applications. Though the whole UNIX family has been revamping the user interface with GUI (Graphic User Interface) with items such as X-Windows, NextStep, OpenLook, etc, UNIX is still weak in the interface area for your average computer user.

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