[donatzsky]

Not a lot of Windows in the shared hosting space. And what little there is tends to be more expensive, from what I have seen.

And, perhaps other than knowing about permissions, you don't really need any Linux knowledge to use these hosts.

[midasuni]

Back in 1996 I had a website running on a shared unix of some sort. I could barely upload files in the correct binary/ascii mode, or copy and paste a “chmod” command.

My 1996 self would be the exact nightmare wordpress user today, although I guess I wanted to learn even though I didn’t know what I was doing, which is different to many comments I’ve seen on places like GitHub.