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Re: Debian or Ubuntu for server?

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Post by SwellJoe » Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 12:48 AM UTC

tx wrote: post #19

SwellJoe wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"IMO production server is just that: a production environment. You set it up just once and you're not supposed to mess around alot." That's why you should have stuck with LTS. 7.04 will likely be EOL'ed in the next few months (unless they branch another LTS version of it), and then you'll be forced to upgrade under duress. Long life cycle is probably single most important factor in choosing a good server distribution…

Correction: I wanted to say staging/testing instead of staging/production. Production is runnin on 6.06

That's wise. When they do an LTS version, then bumping to 7.x is sane. ;-)

Re: Debian or Ubuntu for server?

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Post by jamongkad » Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 1:03 AM UTC

SwellJoe wrote: post #14

Debian or Ubuntu LTS releases are fine. Avoid the usual Ubuntu releases, as their lifecycle is too damned short. Likewise for Fedora (if you like Red Hat based free systems, CentOS will do). I wrote an article about this based on my experience with thousands of Webmin/Virtualmin/Usermin users: http://www.obsceneart.com/?p=30

Thanks man this article should be very helpful!

Re: Debian or Ubuntu for server?

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Post by jamongkad » Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 1:04 AM UTC

orlick wrote: post #7

I've been using Debian stable as a server for the past 8 years. The stability has been top-notch and I actually prefer having a distro that doesn't update very often. The less time I can spend updating a server the more time I can spend delivering value to my customers.

Your not the only one, I've heard very good things about Debian as well.

Re: Debian or Ubuntu for server?

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Post by jamongkad » Tue, Jun 19, 2007, 1:05 AM UTC

dfranke wrote: post #11

jamongkad wrote: post #2

Hi guys I'm about to configure a VPS for my web app(for testing and learning purposes plus it's my first time to launch a site in my life much less configure a webserver.) And upon recommendation of my webhost(a2b2) Debian and Ubuntu would be the best choice as I only have a small VPS to begin with. So what do YCers think? which should I choose?

Go with Debian stable. It's rock-solid. I've done very poorly with Ubuntu. I've tried installing it twice. The first time, it installed successfully but then when I rebooted it trashed my RAID configuration and dropped into single-user mode. The second time, which was last week, the installer kept hanging in bizarre places. The whole distribution just seems to be geared toward very simple hardware configurations and…

Thanks for the response I'm definitely leaning on Debian...