peewhy - 3:50 pm on Apr 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

My host offers both windows and linux, the latter being only £10 per year more.

The host also offers an MS version of MYsql as well the the 'original'.

I'm not a programmer, nor script writer so my natural instinct is to go with the one that offer the least trouble and maximum help when things go wrong.

I'm playing with Joomla at the moment so the whole environment is a completely new learning curve and I would like to put it onto one and hopfully forget about the server rather than getting error warnings.

With the greatest respect to experts and techies, it is all very clear and straight forward to them. I often talk to my clients about HTML and completely lose them unintentionally.. I know how they feel whilst I read about your opinions in the world of Apache, Linus and IIS!