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About ProHost.org
ProHost is a Toronto, Canada based professional hosting provider, we help our customers make their websites and Internet applications faster, more scalable, highly secure and 100% reliable. High Availability and
30 days money back guarantee
is what ProHost has become known for. ProHost has a huge variety of hosting solutions, with each and every solution committed to meeting your demands - from dedicated and shared hosting with managed service to connectivity options. Our network backbone provides direct Internet connections to keep you working and your information moving.
ProHost's fanatic passion for the Linux Operating System combined with raw Internet, networking, and hosting talent, delivers its customers the one source to achieve 99% uptime through the skilled use of the Linux operating system.
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Why Linux?
Linux is a free, stable, and powerful open source operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Because of its open source nature, Linux's source code is publicly available and can be modified by the user. As a result, programmers worldwide are capable and encouraged to contribute to Linux. Linux's source code is constantly worked on by thousands of programmers worldwide. If a security problem is discovered in the source code, a fix is often issued within a few hours. Because Windows NT is closed source software and programmed by Microsoft programmers, security bugs usually take considerably longer to be repaired.
Linux is also extremely fast and efficient. SPEC Corporation's SPECweb99 benchmarks show Linux beating Windows 2000 in a server environment. The Linux server is considerably more responsive to data requests.
Perhaps the best part about Linux is that it is absolutely free. Any Linux distribution can be downloaded freely, and most of the Linux software titles are free. Most Linux distributions come standard with free web servers (such as Apache), databases, firewalls, e-mail servers, etc.
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Apache
Apache is the "de facto" web server of the Internet,
in fact this web server alone runs about 60% of world's
web sites (source:http://www.netcraft.com/survey/) with
the next closest competitor coming in at only 19%.
This shows very well that Apache is a stable, reliable
and very well proven powerful web server.
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PHP
PHP is an amazingly flexible and powerful scripting language,
when paired up with a web server like apache it gives
possibility to rich dynamic pages. PHP syntax borrows from
various languages, mostly C and Perl, PHP also features object
oriented programming with full support of OOP concepts such as
classes, inheritance and polymorphism.
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MySQL
One of the fastest SQL (Structured Query Language) database servers currently
on the market is the MySQL server, developed by T.c.X. DataKonsultAB.
MySQL, available for download at http://www.mysql.com, offers the database
programmer with an array of options and capabilities rarely seen in other
database servers. What's more, MySQL is free of charge for those wishing to
use it for private and commercial use. Those wishing to develop applications
specifically using MySQL should consult MySQL's licensing section, as there
is a charge for licensing the product.
These capabilities range across a number of topics, including the following:
- Ability to handle an unlimited number of simultaneous users.
- Capacity to handle 50,000,000+ records.
- Very fast command execution, perhaps the fastest to be found on the market.
- Easy and efficient user privilege system.
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QMAIL
Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent.
Qmail is used on many large sites such as xoom.com because of it's speed and efficiency
it is a well proven system that has delivered mail for millions of people and will
continue to do so flawlessly.
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