Hi All
We are working on a small application in php / perl, postgresql, apache and plan to deploy the same online. And so to start with we plan to setup our own server and so we need some guidance.
Q) Which distro to use as we need following feature (i) Secure (ii) Stable (iii) Speed (iv) Scalable (iii) Easy to manage / configure (iv) Latest package port easily available.
We are comfortable with Redhat 9 and still playing around with debian (sarge) and still quite new to OpenBSD. We are ready to takeup any distro headon if it meet our need.
Please no flames, if it is going to be mucky please mail me directly.
Regards
Joel 9821421965
Joel A Divekar wrote:
Q) Which distro to use as we need following feature (i) Secure (ii) Stable (iii) Speed (iv) Scalable (iii) Easy to manage / configure (iv) Latest package port easily available.
We are comfortable with Redhat 9 and still playing around with debian (sarge) and still quite new to OpenBSD. We are ready to takeup any distro headon if it meet our need.
If you are pretty new to Debian or BSD distro then i would recommend you not to deploy them for production server. Infact you can use Fedora Core 1 (as its completely stable now and will easily find thirdparty rpms for tht distro as compared to core 2 and core 3) or you can use SUSE as well if you want things to be very simple. But if your company can spend some extra bucks then probably you can approach Redhat for their RHEL 3 version, they will help you with their expertise on migrating your application as well as give training on tht. Also RHEL 3 is more stable, scalable and reliable as compared to Fedora as the OS is further optimised by RedHat.
Use Debian "Woody" on a production server. It is the latest "stable" release of Debian, anything later has not been fully tested and still not fully bug free.
Debian 'Sarge' is not intended for use on production systems as of yet.
We are comfortable with Redhat 9 and still playing around with debian (sarge) and still quite new to OpenBSD. We are ready to takeup any distro headon if it meet our need.
c'ya Erle
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