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Is there a difference between OS in speed of database management?

Is there an OS which works best when combining 20+ servers?

Is there an OS best for video streaming?

What OS is best for safety?

What OS is most stable and recommended for use in professional website hosting environment?

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You may want to break this up into multiple objective questions instead of wording it this way. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 9 '11 at 23:06
Done, thank you for the recommendation. – Darius Apr 9 '11 at 23:13
The only objective question in the edit is the first. And the answer is "yes". – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 9 '11 at 23:14

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Is there a difference between OS in speed of database management?

Is there an OS which works best when combining 20+ servers?

Is there an OS best for video streaming?

These questions are in some sense non-sensical. The question you want to ask is how to evaluate particular solutions. All installations has peculiarities that will impact performance far more than choice of operating system. Thus, the only thing you can do is evaluate and test on staging installations that try to mimic the production environment you envision. So, for example, you may want to ask: "How can I comparably measure performance of MySQL on Windows and Linux?"

What OS is best for safety?

The one whose security mechanisms you understand and maintain.

What OS is most stable and recommended for use in professional website hosting environment?

I dare say the majority of web servers connected to public Internet runs Linux. Tons of info on this can be found at http://news.netcraft.com/.

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