I’ve just made a very simple website with Blocs (really simple and straight-forward).
I plan to buy some webhosting from GoDaddy.
However, they offer Linux hosting and Windows hosting, and I don’t know which option to choose.
They explain: “Choose Windows if you plan to use ASP or ASP.NET. Our Windows customers typically use a SQL server (MS SQL) or Access database. Choose Linux if you’re going to use PHP, Perl, Python or CGI scripting. Our Linux accounts use a MySQL database.”
A lot will depend on if, and what database you might be using. If no database issues, I would be inclined to opt for Linux and Apache, but that is a personal choice.
I don’t know what database I’m using, or even if I’m using one at all (I might need to mention this is my first website ever). It’s just a simple website with texts and some pictures (not even a carroussel), nothing fancy.
In that case, you probably aren’t using one Apache and ASP.NET pretty much do the same thing by way of publishing the site, but as I say my preference would be Linux and Apache. The plus is that there are a lot of people out there using it, and they are all willing to help if you need it.