Unix Information and Resources Daily by daily-auction.net - Unix is the oldest and one of the most widely used operating systems for the web hosting platform. It is the basis of the internet and most web servers originally ran on a version of Unix.

With the evolving Internet world, customer requirement also changes. Unix's multitasking operating system is very important when you consider that hundreds of websites, running thousands of CGI scripts, all receiving thousands of hits could be running on one web server. Unix is considered to be more reliable than Windows hosting and more companies are on UNIX than windows simply because it is faster and open source (meaning it is completely free unlike Windows which has hefty license fees).