Both Operating Systems have there strength and weakness, and thus instead of comparing both of them Windows and Linux operating system here we will discuss there advantages and disadvantages.

Linux is an operating system released and distributed as a free software license while Windows is an operating system released under a licensed software or closed-source software license. It can be found that most of users have Linux as an Operating systems on their web servers, on the other hand Windows can be found mainly in home and offices. Linux has proved to be secured and much more stable even though being an open-source operating system and thus the operating system is free and the source code can be easily distributed whereas Windows is not much popular among the users. It has been noticed that Windows has most of it share in the personal computer markets (desktop) while Linux in the web server market and high-powered servers.
Linux is available with many products and comes from different companies like Red Hat, CentOS, Mandrake, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linspire, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Xandros, Knoppix, Slackware, Lycoris, Gentoo, Debian, Fedora etc, on the other hand all the products of Windows come from Microsoft.

With experience it has been found that Linux is much better than Windows in case of speed as well as stability. Linux has the ability to hold maximum number of ongoing processes. Also, both the OS can handle high traffic websites whether it might be basic, static web pages or dynamic, interactive web pages. While considering prices Windows hosting plans are more expensive than Linux hosting. Windows needs to be purchased and the licenses need to be renewed every year while this is not the case in Linux.