| View Poll Results: Mandrake, RedHat or FreeBSD | |||
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6 | 4.92% |
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63 | 51.64% |
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62 | 50.82% |
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Mandrake, RedHat, or FreeBSD?
03-18-02, 09:40
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weberz Registered User Join: Mar 2002 Posts: 12 |
Mandrake, RedHat, or FreeBSD? I would like to hear about the following if you have time to post. 1. How many of you are using RedHat, Mandrake, or FreeBSD with H-Sphere? 2. Post your user experiances with the distribution that you use. Are there any "gotchas" to either of them. I am currently running Plesk2 on a FreeBSD machine. I like FreeBSD ok, but I feel a tad more comfortable on Linux. Thank you for your time. Tracy Phillips [edit] I had initially decided to use Linux (redhat in particular) but in the end choose FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD for all servers including the CP with no issues. FreeBSD is a much cleaner platform. By clean, I mean it is very well orginized, easy to maintain, NO messy rpm headaches, etc. FreeBSD is very easy to compile your kerenel and userland programs (using FreeBSD's ports system). You can also upgrade FreeBSD's version to the new release with no pain, so it is easier to stay current with FreeBSD. In our line of business, we do not keep an OS on a server for six months, then reinstall the latest and greatest release. We have to be able to upgrade "in place" from one version to the next. I feel FreeBSD is the best choice for a long term OS on a server. I hope this helps, especially with the uncertainty of RedHat's recent decision to not support their standard releases for very long. [/edit] Tracy Phillips http://www.weberz.com Rock Solid Hosting __________________ Tracy Phillips http://www.weberz.com Rock Solid Reseller Hosting sales@weberz.com |
03-18-02, 09:59
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 Yurko Registered User Join: Oct 2001 Posts: 73 |
I prefer FreeBSD, but java works faster and in the multithread mode under Linux. Therefore, my choice to install HSphere as follows: HSphere CP + SiteStudio server: Linux (it can be RedHat or Mandrake, it depends on my admins' choice); HSphere other boxes (mail, web, dns): FreeBSD. __________________ Yuriy Ilnytskyy |
03-21-02, 11:58
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weberz Registered User Join: Mar 2002 Posts: 12 |
There must not be a lot of experiances using the different supported distributions. I have narrowed my scope down to either RedHat 7.2 or Mandrake 8.2. Does anyone know if Mandrake has an auto update feature similiar to "The RedHat Network" thing. Thanks for your advice. __________________ Tracy Phillips http://www.weberz.com Rock Solid Reseller Hosting sales@weberz.com |
03-21-02, 15:36
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 Anatole Registered User Join: Sep 2001 Posts: 267 |
We use it this way: Control Panel: Red Hat 7.2 SQL Server: Red Hat 7.2 Mail Server: FreeBSD 4.5 Web Server: FreeBSD 4.5 DNS Servers: FreeBSD 4.5 My admin says he likes the way Red Hat and FreeBSD are updated. __________________ Shared & Dedicated Servers in Moscow, Tel/Fax +74959845575 |
03-23-02, 18:12
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weberz Registered User Join: Mar 2002 Posts: 12 |
Ok, I think I have decided to use RedHat 7.2 as the basis for the servers. I also plan on having one Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Does anyone have much experiance with windows in an H-Sphere environment. If so could you post your experiance, either good or bad. Also what would be a realistic server setup for the Windows machine? Also H-Sphere supports a RealMedia Server. Are there any plans to support an Apple Darwin Streaming Server (open source so the price is right) or a Windows Media Server (since it ships with W2K Advanced Server)? Once again thank you for your valuable time. Tracy Phillips |
04-01-02, 05:43
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bcarlos Registered User Join: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,200 |
One major advantage of FreeBSD servers for web servers is that ASP.NET will target them before Linux (I can't confirm this, but I'm almost shure about it). So, you have a advantage over other companies since you'll be able to support .NET platform under *nix hosting before them. |
04-01-02, 10:04
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Mr. Weberize Registered User Join: Mar 2002 Posts: 424 |
Microsoft is probabley trying to take marketshare away from Linux or split the Unix market up even further. Or come out with their own distro. Im surprised that they have not done this yet and ported MS apps over to it. Tracy Phillips |
04-01-02, 16:37
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bcarlos Registered User Join: Oct 2001 Posts: 3,200 |
Actually the beta source code of .NET CLR for FreeBSD was released last week. http://www.asp.net/Forums/TopicDetai...567&tabindex=1 |
04-02-02, 11:53
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 Mega Hosters Registered User Join: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,701 |
We are using Windows 3.1 and OS2 servers....  Just kidding.... Redhat all the way kids. Love it. Don't care for mandrake so much, had a nasty experience with it once. What about debian? Anyone used that to set up Hsphere yet? |
09-02-02, 17:26
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 ZP Harrowed Registered User Join: Mar 2002 Posts: 32 |
My choice isn't even listed... Debian :\ Would love to see H-Sphere ported to the good old .deb! apt-get H-Sphere! Don't really like Redhat and Mandrake's just a recompiled for i586+ version of it... :\ (Allthough forced to use it for hosting and it's being a pain - JFS etc) I'd even put in the time to compile the packages *poke PSoft* Wont say anything bad about PSoft coz they know we love em 
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09-06-02, 11:27
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Sonix Registered User Join: Jun 2002 Posts: 332 |
Even though linux is 'better' for the cp, because of java... I will take the minor performance hit for the stabliity/security of Freebsd.. that's me though.. how big do you really have to be before that hit becomes noticable anyway?? By that time Im expecting a cluster solution on the CP from hsphere anyway
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09-07-02, 00:03
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 Webdude Registered User Join: Oct 2001 Posts: 675 |
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01-19-03, 21:36
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EOTN Security Registered User Join: Jan 2003 Posts: 5 |
I plan on running all Redhat servers. However, RH is most definetly not my first choice in Distros. For home, work, and web servers (other than H-Sphere) I run one OS. The one I consider superior to all other linux distributions. And that distro my friend - Is the one - the only Slackware Linux |
01-20-03, 07:36
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hopsis Registered User Join: Jun 2002 Posts: 495 |
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 FreeBSD 4.7 runs like a dream, easy to install, it is PSOFT's perferred OS for everything except the control panel, in which case Linux (RH) is their choice as it runs Java Multi-threaded. Craig |
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01-20-03, 07:45
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Karl Registered User Join: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,639 |
FreeBSD is all well and good, but it just sucks with SMP. RH is my first choice of distros for HSphere and CPanel, but not what I would pick for a server given the choice, I'd pick one of the lightweight ditros designed for running as servers - with all the fluff removed, then harden it with Bastille - That's in an ideal world, but unfortunately all these control panel writers (Not just PSoft) don't program in an ideal world 
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