For all intents and purposes they both accomplish the same task, that of serving your Web pages to the world. We prefer that our customers use our Linux based web servers and as such, this is the default setting when a customer adds a domain name to their StaticKing.com hosting account.
We recommend that our customers only use a Linux Web server if they specifically require Linux PHP coding or Databases. Every effort is made to keep all of our Web servers as secure as possible and our Linux Web servers are security patched as soon as new updates become available.