{"id":5340,"date":"2013-01-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jan\/10\/cloud-servers-leading-the-pack-in-linux-vps\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:30:00","slug":"cloud-servers-leading-the-pack-in-linux-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-servers-leading-the-pack-in-linux-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud servers: Leading the pack in Linux VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Microsoft Windows still dominates the desktop operating system popularity, Linux has become a dominant force in cloud servers and&nbsp;virtual private servers (VPS). Linux is not only a cheaper way to host cloud applications, but it also comes in several distribution flavors.<\/p>\n<p>Customers looking at cloud hosting as a solution can choose from&nbsp;CentOS,&nbsp;Fedora,&nbsp;Ubuntu&nbsp;and&nbsp;Debian. Each of these distributions offers the same basic functions, but they have different tweaks that some administrators like over other distributions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linux VPS versus Windows solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the more affordable option, what makes Linux better than Windows? First, the Apache hosting environment and the Linux operating system are free, so, no surprise, Linux is a cheaper hosting solution.<\/p>\n<p>Apache hosting usually includes the &#8220;cPanel&#8221; control panel. cPanel is&nbsp;popular with end-users and is more easily managed than Plesk, the equivalent Windows solution for managing cloud web servers.<\/p>\n<p>Linux hosting naturally &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Microsoft Windows still dominates the desktop operating system popularity, Linux has become a dominant force in cloud servers and&nbsp;virtual private servers (VPS). Linux is not only a cheaper way to host cloud applications, but it also comes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}