There are two types of platforms which are typically available for web hosting i.e. Linus and Windows. These web hosting platforms are separate from the operating system we generally use with other hosting platforms like linux or windows vps hosting.

Linux is an open source platform based on UNIX that is predominantly used for hosting websites. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python) is the most important feature of Linux. LAMP signifies combination of software and server technologies which are open source and thus making Linux web hosting offers optimal solution to website hosting with limited budget.

Linux is more secure and more efficient than windows hosting as it compressed more features.

Secure and stable
Easy backups
East to manage and many more