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When you make any decision regarding your business, there are many different things you may take into consideration. What are your long-term goals for business growth? Are you taking your business in exciting new directions? Is your brand growing steadily to become a recognizable name? All of these things are important – but none of them are as important as the financial implications of your choices. As any CEO or company owner knows, the most important factor in almost every decision is balancing low cost of implementation against potential revenue.

In the world of web hosting, this kind of decision can have a long-term implication. When choosing a web hosting provider, the price of your hosting plan is a continued expense over time, and should be carefully considered against your estimated number of visitors and possible new sales. In addition to the choice between shared hosting, virtual private server (VPS) hosting, and dedicated hosting, many businesses are surprised at the importance of choosing the best operating system to run your web hosting server.

In a recently published article, How Linux Web Hosting Can Save You Money And Attract New Customers, Linux web hosting specialist JaguarPC examines the incredible popularity of Linux hosting services and explains how a feature-packed Linux server can be an affordable way to launch your web presence. You will also learn more about the many benefits of a Linux hosting service and how your choice of operating system can help to attract new customers and generate revenue.

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For a business or individual taking the first steps into the wide world of the Internet, the launch of a quality web presence depends on finding a suitable web hosting service. As simple as this may sound, the sheer quantity of options currently available from web hosting providers can seem intimidating. Between shared web hosting solutions, virtual private server hosting (VPS hosting), dedicated server hosting and, more recently, cloud hosting plans, finding the solution that is right for your business can be a time-consuming, complex process. However, one of the most fundamental and influential decisions that you will need to make is completely independent of specific hosting types – do you need a Windows web hosting or Linux web hosting service?

Windows, used by millions of people every single day, is an operating system that has grown to become a household name thanks to its intuitive, easy to learn user interface and excellent support for popular applications. On the other hand, talk of Linux hosting or Linux servers can often leave people unsure of how their web hosting plan will work, along with its compatibility with software and the reliability and uptime that can be expected.

In this article, you will learn about the Linux operating system, the popularity of Linux web hosting services, and the benefits of running a Linux web server for your business. You will also learn why your choice of web hosting operating system can have a tangible impact upon your revenue and profit.

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When it comes to launching your business into the online marketplace, the range of web hosting options available can seem overwhelming. Whether you opt for a shared web hosting, virtual private server (VPS) hosting, dedicated server or hybrid server hosting solution, your decision should be based on as much information as possible to ensure the long-term performance of your web presence.

However, one factor that is often misunderstood is the choice of operating system that allows your web hosting server to function. Just as with your home or business computer, an operating system must run in the background of your server to assist with managing system resources and handling administrative tasks.

Without a doubt, Windows is the world’s best-known operating system – but with Windows web hosting solutions readily available, why do more than 60% of businesses still choose a Linux web hosting service? How is Linux hosting tailored for web use, and how can a Linux server be actively more reliable, scalable, and affordable than any other type of hosting?

JaguarPC offers a tiered selection of Linux hosting services, including Linux shared hosting and Linux dedicated servers. Whatever the scale of your business – and whatever your preferred type of web hosting solution – you can be confident that JaguarPC provides a Linux hosting plan to suit your budget and maximize your opportunity for growth and great return on investment (ROI).

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By purchasing a Linux web hosting plan from JaguarPC you get more than reliable and affordable web hosting. You get access to a wide variety of web applications that you can install on your domain in order to transform a static web presence into a dynamic, interactive experience. And the best part about the web applications available on Linux servers is the fact that they are free and open source. You can create a professional looking blog or build a forum community around your website, without investing anything except a little of your time.

In JaguarPC’s recently published article, Improve Your Online Presence with Free Web Applications Designed to Work on Linux Web Servers, learn more about the importance of open source web applications and how you can use free web apps to improve your online presence. The article also talks about the most important types of web applications that run optimally on a Linux web hosting service, such as blogging tools, content management systems, and e-commerce platforms.

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For many individuals, small businesses, and professionals looking to create an online presence, shared web hosting is the first choice as an entry-level solution that provides quality hosting at affordable prices. Shared web hosting is the ideal solution for websites and web applications that do not have extensive performance needs and when affordability is the primary concern.

With shared hosting, several sites or web applications are hosted on a single server, partitioning the same hardware and software resources. Sharing resources lowers costs, giving clients access to web hosting for a small investment. A major factor that determines the hosting costs for the end user is the operating system used on the web server. The most accessible hosting solutions use the open source Linux operating system, which is free for commercial and personal use. Linux web hosting providers offer the most affordable solutions because they are not forced to recover their investment in licensing fees as Windows Server hosting providers do.

Besides affordability, another characteristic that makes Linux an attractive option for web hosting is its open source nature. The open source community is an enthusiastic gathering of software developers and users who share a common belief that software should be free to use and accessible to everybody. There are hundreds of free web applications designed to work on Linux servers, and many of them are not accessible on other operating systems. In this article, we explore some of the most important categories of applications that you can use with a Linux web hosting plan, we learn about one-click installation scripts, and we see how you can use web applications to create an attractive online presence with minimal investment.

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Please tell us a little about yourself.

Im 32, a father of 3, and when I’m not shackled to a desk I enjoy spending time with the family, fishing, and playing guitar. Anyone that knows me will tell you I’m very big on core values in every person we hire, and every project we take on. Core values such as honesty, integrity, and respect are often set aside in the modern world and particularly behind the veil of anonymity of the internet. I believe this is precisely the area where people should adhere to those values the most. If you do, a reference is as easy as saying “google me”.

Can you summarize your educational experience for us?

I graduated high school in 94 and joined the Airforce in 95 where I spent 7yrs learning and growing as a person. I took some college while in the USAF but eventually the demand and excitement of JaguarPC led me to exit the USAF and go at hosting full time.

What do you consider as your accomplishments up to this point?

That I’ve managed to keep a healthy marriage, raise 3 kids, and all while running a very demanding business for 10yrs. Hitting milestones such as 100, 500, 1000 servers has been exciting as well.

Any failures you’d like to tell us about?

Nobody grows as a company or person without some failure. More importantly though is the lessons you take away from the experience. One big failing in the past was letting my excitement get the better of us by not planning properly for our growth. There is no growth worth hurting a reputation built up by a decade of hard work. Now we work our hardest on preserving that ideal.

What is your primary occupation?

Whatever my staff, clients, and partners need from me. I wear the CEO title but the truth is that even with 75 people working for me I still enjoy getting involved in the daily activities where it all got started. Our company is all about reflecting that person touch.

How do you manage your time? Will you describe what you do on a daily and/or weekly basis?

Between my wife and my iPhone I’m able to stay on top of things pretty well most of the time. My week involves a lot of email between my staff, management meetings, networking with other professionals, going over reports from the various areas of our companies, and of course some daily interactions with clients on forums, instant messengers, and the phone.

Do you oversell?

We don’t, except for our shared hosting plans. None of our reseller, VPS, or hybrid plans have any features that are oversold. The shared technology we use and our vast experience lets us manage the shared environments so well that we simply never run into the tiny things some watch all the time like disk space. Simply put, we just can’t run out of disk space. Even as we speak all our clients could increase their usage immediately by 500% and it wouldn’t cause alarm. Like cell phone minutes and bandwidth, the prices of storage are so minute these days its hard to justify placing a limit and letting a 2tb system only collect dust while 80% of the space sits wasted. Overselling as a means of marketing actually is the best way we can tell clients “use more, if you don’t nobody will” . And our system is setup so you have to have 80% of an initial quota actually used before you request more, but you can request more as many times as you want and its automatically added.

Tell us about your control panel, is it based on cPanel and what makes it special?

In our shared environment we use cPanel exclusively, but for VPS, hybrid, and dedicated servers we offer and support a wide range of control panels and software. We have developed a proprietary platform that ties into our servers, billing, software, ips, staff, and pretty much our entire operation. I wouldn’t want to imagine running a company this size and complex without it.

As part of your managed services you propose monitoring, does that include proactive responses?

Yes. And we have some really exciting improvements coming to our operation in the next 30days that will improve that response greatly by adding new methods of alerts and new tools for clients and our staff to respond to those alerts.

You propose VPS solutions on JaguarPC and yet you operate wowvps.com too, why?

Wowvps.com was started off for two reasons; we didn’t want to mix our managed Virtuozzo offering in jaguarpc.com with the unmanaged xen VPS offering. And we wanted a fresh place to kickoff our VSControl software that took years to develop and perfect. We will begin offering the software to the public this year. Finally there is a xen based vps hosting control panel that hosts can rely on.

You have offices in multiple cities and you have also remote technicians all over the world, how do you manage them?

With our software, and my great management team. If I had to manage a staff this size on my own it would consume my day. I empower the managers of the various departments to give them a chance to really make a difference in peoples lives and in the companies growth.

Do you own your data centers?

Not yet. We run colo cages, racks, and other specialized agreements with facilities in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, the UK, and Singapore. We are expanding to other cities as well as currently planning our own facility.

You have a very active community, how did your business benefit from it?

It hasn’t stopped benefiting from it yet . Our clients are equally as awesome as our staff. Often clients are eager to learn things for themselves or just might be curious about something. When they take those issues to our community not only does it reduce our own support load, it builds a sense of community, adds content, and perpetuates itself.

What can we expect from JaguarPC in the future?

We love taking the lead and pushing boundaries of what defines a product. We were right out front pushing vps long before most even knew what it was. In fact I had to request from the owners of WHT to get vps categories and forums added many years ago. We plan to do more of the same and push the envelope of whats possible. This year is no exception, we have some great deals coming very soon made possible by a few unique partnerships we just finalized.

What does the future hold for Greg Landis?

Only God knows for certain but I’ll keep doing what I do best. Because its working for me. I do plan to continue pursuing our larger plans, building data centers, and diversifying Landis holdings in many other non-hosting related opportunities as well. So far I’ve been very fortunate and enjoy spreading it around. Ask me again in another 10yrs