frozenwaste1 - 4:33 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi,

I'm currently using a Windows hosting package for upto 10 domains, at the moment, I have 2 sites running.

I now want to setup a couple of sites using Wordpress, reading around it appears that Linux is the better option for among other things, plugin compatability etc.

The couple of questions I have are:

1. If I contact my hosting provider to transfer me to their Linux package, will this affect my current sites? They work perfectly now, but on Linux wouldn't things run differently?

2. At the moment, I build my sites using Dreamweaver on a Windows PC, which I can fully test before uploading using IIS. How would I go about testing a site if I moved to Linux? What's the general concensus, should I install Linux/Apache on another PC or is that too much effort, should I just test by uploading to my host?

Thanks for your time!

Peter.