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Definitely look into purchasing some decent Cloudflare protection. The checks that the software does when someone enters your site is a great advantage.
In web hosting, Linux can eat less resources and cause less problems. On the other hand, you'd probably want a Windows OS via VPS so that you can navigate around with remote connection.