Save Money with Open Source Software

Managed hosting suppliers typically charge much less to maintain servers that run the Linux operating system and Apache server software than they charge to maintain servers running Windows and Microsoft IIS server software. These people are professionals in a competitive business who look at each nickel they spend. If they charge less to maintain servers running Open Source software than to maintain servers running proprietary software like Windows and IIS, it's because they have made careful cost and reliability comparisons and have decided that Linux and Apache are more efficient than the alternatives.