Web/E-commerce security As all the evidence indicates, the platform (Operating System and Web Server) really doesn't matter. This 2005 report of confirmed website defacements by Zone-H shows that even though Linux and Apache were defaced more than Windows and IIS (contrary to popular misconception), it wasn't the OS or Web Server that accounted for the biggest factor but the skill the PHP/ASP programmer or the Server Administrator or the Application Server platform. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=191