OS Recommendations

[lpittman]

Hello everyone ... I am currently running a RH 7.3/Plesk 7.5 and am looking to ordering a new server and was wondering what was the 'norm' for 8.0, if any.

I do basic hosting stuff, nothing fancy. Any recommendations/suggestions/opinions would be great.

I am currently considering FC4, but only because I'm slightly firmiliar with it.

I am a novice Linux user if that makes any difference...

Looking forward to responses. = )

Luke

 

[breun]

I'd go with CentOS 4 if you're slightly familiar with Fedora. CentOS works just the same, it's free but has a much longer lifecycle than Fedora.

 

[lpittman]

Thanks for the feedback ... Is it only the longer life cycle that does it for you? Perhaps could outline some of the other advantages, if any... = )

Anyone else have any preferences?

Luke

 

[breun]

CentOS is a free rebuild of the non-free Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you're familiar with the Red Hat way of Linux (RHEL/Fedora/CentOS), I'd go with CentOS.

 

[crnunez]

RHEL4 or CentOS4.3 are goods!

 

[lpittman]

Will CentOS 4.3 work fine? That's all I can find for some reason.

 

[breun]

Yes, CentOS 4.3 will work just fine.

 

[Hultenius]

Go for CentOS 4.x.

 

[tolis]

why not fedora?

Hi to everyone
I also want to switch to a new server and since i have been using a centos 3.6 i think to installa either a newer centos or a fedora, probably 4
Any feedback on either of them with plesk 8?
Thanks

 

[breun]

Go with Fedora 4 if you need PHP5 out of the box, otherwise go with CentOS 4.

 

[tolis]

Is plesk compatible with both of them?
I need php4 cause of the scripts i use in my websites and i thought that plesk uses php5...

 

[breun]

Plesk uses whatever PHP version your OS installs. Fedora 4 comes with PHP 5, CentOS 4 has PHP 4.

It is possible to install PHP 5 on OSes that don't come with PHP 5 out of the box, but it is not completely trivial to make this work seemlessly with Plesk. The Atomic Rocket Turtle repository has created Plesk-compatible PHP 5 packages for Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora releases that don't come with PHP 5 out of the box. If you want to set this up check out http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/Joomla/content/view/141/29/

 

[tolis]

Thanks a looooot Breun!!!!
I supose you use plesk 8 or not?
How do you evaluate it so far?

 

[breun]

I maintain a good lot of different systems: some run Plesk 7.5, some run Plesk 8, some run Fedora, some run CentOS... If it's up to me I usually go for Plesk 8 on CentOS 4.

 

[tolis]

OK thanks for all your help
appreciate it...