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Why host your FrontPage web site on an imitation?

While, it looks so obvious when we phrase it as "hosting on an imitation," lets look at the reasons people might end up hosting their FrontPage web site on something other than a Windows computer.

All Web Servers are the same.

I call this the ignorance arguement.  This shouldn't be confused with being stupid.  All I am saying here is that the person making the decision just doesn't know there is a difference between web servers.  As long as the web server supports FrontPage, they think, "it is as good as any other."

On the surface, this would seem to be true.  And if all you are using from FrontPage is the ability to create a web site in a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) tool, this is basically true.  But, if you want to take advantage of some of the more powerful features of FrontPage, like sending a form to an email address, or accessing a database, it isn't at all true.  These additional features were made to primarily work with features found on the Windows operating system.  While FrontPage extensions have been created that work on other operating systems, this was more of an afterthought.  In addition, you probably wrote the web site on your local computer, and hopefully tested it there too.  It doesn't make sense to run it on another type of computer unless you plan to test it on that type of computer.

Windows isn't a secure operating system.

The older Windows operating sytems were, in fact, less secure and more prone to web attacks.  But, recent data comparing Windows 2000 and above to Linux servers tend to indicate that Windows may be more secure.  At the very least it is hard to argue that hosting FrontPage on Windows is less secure.