Title: Windows vs Linux
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Windows vs Linux

 *  [doubleinfinity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doubleinfinity/)
 * (@doubleinfinity)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/windows-vs-linux-1/)
 * Hello,
 * Should the performance (in terms of page load and time to first byte) of WordPress
   significantly differ when using a Windows server vs Linux?
 * The basic Twenty Twelve theme is taking between 8 – 20 seconds to load on Windows
   and 2 – 3 seconds on Linux.
 * Does anyone have any benchmark stats for comparison between the two platforms
   for WordPress speed?
 * Regards

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 *  [Odai Athamneh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heyodai/)
 * (@heyodai)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/windows-vs-linux-1/#post-3449853)
 * I couldn’t find any benchmarks, but do you think the performance difference could
   have anything to do with the different “stacks”?
 * Linux servers running WordPress typically use a LAMP stack, or Linux/Apache/MySQL/
   PHP. By contrast, Windows uses WISP, or Windows/IIS/SQL/PHP.
 * Setting aside any performance difference between the two, LAMP is much more common
   than WISP. Since WordPress is open-source (any user could contribute code), that
   means lots of people identifying bugs or performance issues on LAMP, and only
   a handful doing so for WISP.
 * I don’t have any hard data to back this up though, just some thoughts.

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