Plesk vs cPanel

Should I choose a Plesk – Windows or cPanel - Linux hosting account?

Getting a hosting account?  "Linux or Windows?" There isn't a big difference between them and either type of account works for most customers.

To make sure you do get the right type of account, though, you should choose the type of hosting account you want based on how you're building your site.


Development Tool                                                                Linux Windows
WordPress® or other Web apps                                            yes        -
Dreamweaver or other WYSIWYG apps                                yes        -
PHP, MySQL, CGI, Python, or Perl                                           yes       - 
ASP, ASP.NET, MS SQL                                                               -         yes 
ASP, ASP.NET and PHP, MySQL                                                -         yes 
I have no idea what this means                                              yes        -

Just to note that these are just our recommendations. Windows accounts will actually support most of these development tools, but Linux hosting best fits most customers hosting needs.