As far as web hosting world is concerned, Windows and Linux are the two ruling platforms, if a person is a Apple Mac user then he mostly asks for a Mac compatible web hosting services. As all of us know that Mac is the product of Apple corporation specially designed and developed for hosting a Website With Mac OS X Servers. One does not need to have a vast experience as a webmaster. Developing a static Website and deploying it is an easy task so far administrative interaction is concerned. Mac OS X Server is powered by Apache, which is one of the most popular Servers available today. We can not be so sure about all web hosting service providers having this service as the demand is pretty less compared to the traditional Linux and Windows Hosting. Some Mac users have claimed few difficulties while finding and selecting the required hosting provider for them. I also found some people claiming that there is no big difference in Mac hosting and Windows Hosting.

Linux Hosting is one of the most used service around the globe. With its user friendly features it has become a preferred hosting service opted by many users. Linux Hosting is powered with cPanel Control Panel. cPanel is a control panel using which you can manage email accounts, FTP accounts, domains, MySQL databases, Fantastico and many other features. Many other open source applications can be installed using Fantastico which is an add-on for cPanel control Panel. Linux operating system is used for Dedicated Server Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting, Shared Hosting and Semi-Dedicated Hosting. Linux Updates are available easily as it is an open source application.

Windows Web Hosting is also one of the widely used web hosting services with Linux hosting. Windows operating system is a product by Microsoft, developed specially for server hosting. It comes with the brand value of Microsoft Products and thus is in demand among many users. It is very easy to navigate. It is powered with the Plesk Control Panel which is considered to be one of the most user friendly graphical interface, it becomes really very easy to manage your account and configure your custom settings. Windows operating system is not an open source application and thus is associated with a cost for its license. Many corporate businesses prefer opting for a Windows based hosting package to make sure compatibility with their existing systems.

There are certain goodies and drawbacks involved with each hosting type and same is applicable to Mac OS X also. Mac is powered by Apache with comes with few good default configurations, which makes it simple for deployment, furthermore authentication and encryption is supported through CGI and SSL support. Similar to Windows VPS hosting or Linux VPS Hosting Mac also lets you to host more than one Website on a single server with different configurations, security options and IP addresses for each one. Integration of OpenSSL with the Apache web servers makes the security tighter than the ordinary. Internet video streaming is lifted to higher levels with the Inclusion of Quicktime X with snow leopard server which supports to ‘http live streaming’. Not as far as lower side of Mac is concerned upgrade scale is poor when compared with Windows. As price is a sensitive factor for most of the people, Mac is costliest among all three. For gaming enthusiastic people Mac is certainly not a good choice as it requires Windows interface.

After writing the above article I will like to conclude that that though Mac OS X is competing to windows and Linux in a very impressive manner but still it is not up to the mark to be replaced for Windows or Linux.