Business is cost conscious and the opportunity to cut costs wherever possible, is high on the mind of the CFO and the CIO.  Indeed coemptive pressure are such that  saving money may well be a matter of survival. IT functions based on in-house infrastructure are high on the list of areas that are being  outsourced. This applies across the scale from single applications to entire data centres.

There are differences between Linux and the Microsoft platform (and others). There are some differences between two platforms, such as security features, functionality and of course supported scripting languages. Microsoft has its own operating system with associated licensing fees, and Linux is an open source operating system that is often free. The majority of web features run on both platforms.

Major credit card issuers created PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards to protect personal information and ensure security when transactions are processed using a payment card. All members of the payment card industry (financial institutions, credit card companies and merchants) must comply with these standards if they want to accept credit cards. Failure to meet compliance standards can result in fines from credit card companies and banks and even the loss of the ability to process credit cards.

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Linux , an "open source" operating system is a highly stable and reliable platform. A Linux hosting solution is designed for businesses requiring up to 99.99% uptime for their revenue-generating online applications: effectively, the solution cannot go down. Its design allows for high-volume web-serving capabilities, web-server redundancy, multi-layer managed security and dedicated processing for applications and database servers, and high-availability SAN services for database storage in a secure environment.

There are advantages to using Window hosting on your web site. Although there is no real difference to what a web visitor sees on a site hosted with Windows versus what a web visitor sees on a site hosted with Linux, the differences are more in the back end administration and site development.  Macquarie Windows Hosting delivers on the benefits of Microsoft Server 2008 Performance.