Generally, when renting a server in Hong Kong, there are two systems to choose from, Windows and Linux, and this is also the most commonly used. But some friends don’t know which system to choose? How to make it reasonable first? The editor of this article will analyze it with everyone.

The two operating systems, Windows and Linux, have their own characteristics. Choose whichever operating system is more suitable according to the needs of the website. If you don't know how to choose, you can choose from the following angles.

1. Choose according to the requirements of the website, including the development language of the website, the type of information database, etc.

If the development language is ASP, .NET, MFC, C#, and the information base is AccESS, SQL Server, please choose Windows; if you need to execute Microsoft software, you can only choose Windows;

If the development language is WAP and the database is MySQL or SQLite, please choose Linux;

If the development language is HTML, C, JAVA, PHP, etc., the two actual operating systems are compatible, so choose as you like!

2. Now that the system has been selected, let's talk about how to choose the version?

Windows: The recommendation for version selection is that the higher the version, the better. Both win2003 and win2008 have stopped security updates, and many cloud service providers will gradually offline these two versions, so it is not recommended to choose. win2012, win2016, win2019 have better network upgrade and system compatibility, openness, scalability, security, high configuration, and simple operation. In addition, when choosing 32-bit or 64-bit, the difference lies in the size of the memory. 32-bit is only compatible with up to 4GB of memory. If you want to use more than 4GB of memory or expand the memory to more than 4GB in the future, choose a 64-bit operating system. . As for the language, Chinese or English, please choose according to your own usage habits.

Linux: Commonly used distributions are CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. At present, most Internet companies choose CentOS. CentOS focuses more on the server field and has no copyright restrictions.