Benefits of Windows Hosting Plans

Windows hosting plans are one of the most popular hosting plans. Windows plans are those which use Windows Server OS as back-end to host a website. The hosting platform for a website has to be in accordance to the language in which the website is written. The kind of applications that a website runs is also a way of determining the hosting platform for a website.

A standard Windows hosting plan would be the one which would support a site built using .NET or Active Server Pages.

Windows hosting plans have been compared extensively with other plans. We’ve already gone through a section related to Windows Vs Linux Online Web Hosting.

Windows hosting plans come tied with ‘n’ number of benefits. One such benefit is that it provides great amount of disk-space for a website to store its contents and databases. Windows plan offer around 8-10GB space for every website. For websites based on flash, Windows hosting plans are highly advantageous.

Security is another benefit of Windows Hosting plans. It provides better security and good back-up services to every website. With Windows hosting, you can have a number of sub domains which will never limit your usage.

Apart from storage and security, Windows hosting has some other benefits too. A number of e-mail accounts are also available with Windows hosting. This special hosting also provides various techniques for online promotion and marketing related to the website.

Given below are some advantages of Windows Hosting:

• In comparison to open source hosting platforms, Windows Operating system supports hosting in a better way as it is licensed by Microsoft.
• For websites developed in .NET, Windows hosting is considered to be the best option. This is because both of them are created by Microsoft.
• Windows supports a number of databases which is why the choice of picking one is not limited. With Windows, a website can opt for almost any database, however a MySQL database from Microsoft is considered to be the best choice.
• If a website uses, MS Access database is used by a website, the only hosting choice that the website will be left with is Windows web hosting. MS Access is only supported by a Windows hosting server. For other servers, MS Access would never function properly.
• Microsoft applications and services such as SharePoint can only be used with a Windows hosting plan.