Why Windows VPS Price > Linux VPS Price ?

[soum111]

all vps hosting providers charges bigger money for Windows VPS than Linux VPS, even for same Configuration..
My Question is Why?

is there any Control Panel issue or what?

thanks for viewing.....m w8ing for the answer

soum111 Reviewed by soum111 on 16th Feb 2012. Why Windows VPS Price > Linux VPS Price ? all vps hosting providers charges bigger money for Windows VPS than Linux VPS, even for same Configuration.. My Question is Why? is there any Control Panel issue or what? thanks for viewing.....m w8ing for the answer :) Rating: 5

[Long]

Because they need to cover costs of the Windows licence etc.

They pass those costs on to their clients, pretty standard.

[foxman]

You gotta pay for windows license..

[ShareShiz]

Linux = Free
Windows = Pay

[moduleserver]

That is pretty obvious..It's higher because of the license fee for the windows VPS.

Linux Rules !

[Mac]

Okay guys, I think that by now we've established that the reason for higher Windows VPS pricing is indeed the Windows Server licencing fee.

You're welcome.

[l0calh0st]

It?s not just the license, since Linux is most of the time OpenVZ which can be oversold.Windows VPS are based on Xen, which hosts can?t oversell the resources. So they gotta ask more money to earn something from it.

[Zeokat]

I think that the windows license isn?t the problem, because is the client who pays for it.
The main problem is that windows is more resource expensive than linux and need powerfull expects to run.

[Loonycgb2]

Most hosts here if smart use pirated windows server.. Only big hosts use paid license..
Also the ones with strict datacenters...

Either way the license isnt the reason. Linux can be run with low end hardware since it has very low requirements. As for windows it has higher requirements due to all the software running up the memory and cpu.

[moduleserver]

Very interesting points from both l0calh0st and Loonycgb2 !