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

Unix is known as a multitasking operating system which means that it can run many applications at the same time without them affecting each other. This 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 usually more reliable than Windows hosting and more companies are on UNIX than windows simply because it is faster and open source (that is completely free unlike Windows which has heavy license fees).