Unix-Linux hosting is the most wide-spread platform. The main advantage of a Unix-Linux hosting is its cheapness (almost all of the software for a server is freeware) and its reliability (it is rather harder to obtain a similar stability from a Windows server). Thus, if the project is not based on usage of ASP.NET and similar technologies, then the choice should unambiguously be a Unix-Linux-based hosting.

Almost all tasks, even those far from the philistine level, may be performed using this platform with PHP, MySQL, PERL, and other technologies.