Unix vs Windows Shared Hosting

[grandlover]

I am currently on a Unix shared hosting server with my provider. Recently I noticed the server resolves file names in a case-sensitive way and I have to use a 404 file for redirects. Do you think this is a big problem if my site starts growing. Should i drop my current provider and move to a windows shared hosting provider because my current provider says they cannot change.
Apart from this case-sensitive issue could you please advise on any other benefits or disadvantages windows shared hosting will have.

[physics]

I would never switch to windows hosting for a ton of reasons (security, reliability, speed, etc.), especially not this. As long as you're displaying your internal links on your site in the proper case and getting people to link to you with the proper case I wouldn't think it would be much of an issue.

[grandlover]

thanks. The search engines some times like to confuse the case when accessing the file, accessing it in all lower case, eventhough i made the first letter of each word in the filename upper case and even provided them a google sitemap. I don't normally change file names once created, so is this some caching issue or should i set up a robot file with a specific setting to deal with it.

[sandyeggo]

i would NEVER run a large site on a windows box. When it comes to anything custom that you want to do later, believe me - you will be happy that you are running on a linux server.

[mcavic]

Whenever you have a choice, Unix/Linux hosting is the way to go. To work around any search engines that might be broken, I would change all of the filenames to all lower-case. You would then want to 301 redirect the old filenames to the new ones, which could probably be done with .htaccess.

[grandlover]

thanks I will do so.