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hosting? mac user

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  • 24-03-2010 5:24am
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    helpme1234
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    This might be a silly question but can I use for instance digiweb hosting if I am a mac user, I signed up for starter thing only to realise they have this whole linux and windows something or other.

    Are there different hosters for mac users??

    Thank you


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    Pixelcraft
    Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Pixelcraft


    That's down to what system the host machine will be running, nothing to do with what system you run. It will depend on what web technologies you want to run that will make your decision.


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    mneylon
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    Whether you use a Mac or a PC is irrelevant

    The only thing that would matter is if you were coding in ASP.net / ASP which are Microsoft Windows only.

    Apart from that most other stuff will run just as well on Linux as on Windows hosting (and vice-versa)

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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    helpme1234 wrote: »
    This might be a silly question but can I use for instance digiweb hosting if I am a mac user, I signed up for starter thing only to realise they have this whole linux and windows something or other.

    Are there different hosters for mac users??

    Thank you

    That's the reason that FTP is used to upload websites.

    F.T. = "File Transfer", a.k.a. "copy the files from one place to another"
    P. = "Protocol / Standard", allow different operating systems (Windows/Mac/Linux) to understand each other without really needing to know what the operating system is.

    The only thing to watch for is that if the target system is Linux, then filenames are case-sensitive, so a link or an image might be broken - safest to have all filenames lowercase so that this issue doesn't arise.


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    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    The only thing to watch for is that if the target system is Linux, then filenames are case-sensitive, so a link or an image might be broken - safest to have all filenames lowercase so that this issue doesn't arise.

    And spaces in file names can make things messy too ..

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