Do you know what operating system on which you web host’s server runs? It is an important piece of information to know as you design your web pages because the server’s operating system, or OS, determines what scripting languages can run and what databases are supported among other things. There are three major operating systems on which web host servers can run. The Linux operating system allows scripts like Perl, html, Python and other languages based on Unix. The server operating on Linux also generally supports MySQL and PostgreSQL database systems. Servers run on Unix operating systems, like Solaris or FreeBSD, have the same capabilities as servers run on the Linux operating [...]