Hi all,
I'm looking at deploying a new cPanel machine and just curious as to what operating systems you guys are running. My options currently are
RedHat Enterprise
CentOS
FreeBSDAre there any stability issues or advantges/disadvantages to any of these?
Thanks!

CentOS 5, no question about it. We use it on all our servers and have never needed a reason to use a different OS.

Right on, thanks for the quick reply Shaun!

Yep, Cent OS is the ideal choice :-)

CentOS is the best for Cpanel.

I Had a CentOS server for a while it was extremely stable

CentOS is really the distribution of choice. Basically, it's RedHat Enterprise without the fees. FreeBSD, I have heard of some stability issues as far as running cPanel on it. Not sure if they have been worked out or not, as not many that I know of run cPanel on FreeBSD.

Hi all,
I'm looking at deploying a new cPanel machine and just curious as to what operating systems you guys are running. My options currently are
RedHat Enterprise
CentOS
FreeBSDAre there any stability issues or advantges/disadvantages to any of these?
Thanks!
It depends on your skill level when it comes to managing any of these.
In terms of performance:
CentOS / RedHat
FreeBSD
The Linux scheduler is the best in its category. Task switching and process bookkeeping is snappy. I give it a 1.
In terms of support:
RedHat
CentOS
FreeBSD
With Redhat and if you purchase support, you're worry free. With CentOS, however, you'll either have to hire an experienced sysadmin or fix it yourself. Hence my ranking it second. With FBSD, you don't need support... if you've read the whole book.
They're all about as stable based on my personal experience.
Regards

I'm using CentOS 5.2 x64 on two Cpanel servers. Works great.

Everything I deploy, be it personal or one of the several server I deploy at work I use CentOS. Community Enterprise OS :) Everything is checked and rechecked, its the most stable OS I have used (as long as you don't go futzing with third party repos) and wouldn't switch unless it went the way of Ubuntu.

CentOS is the most preferred choice for many servers with Cpanel even though it supports other Linux editions

I've always preferred CentOS5.

FreeBSD is absolutely amazing. I love FreeBSD; but, cPanel and FreeBSD don't always play nicely. I still use FSBD+cPanel on my servers, but I don't recommend it for a newbie. If you are familiar with BSD, then go for it. Otherwise, use CentOS.

I have used RedHat Enterprise for years on several servers without issues. It could come FREE for you as well, depending on the NOC you are using.

My vote also goes to CentOS, we are running it on almost all of our Cpanel servers.

I recommend CentOS. Only a few people use others, such as Redhat. And although Redhat has a good reputation. cPanel apparently likes CentOS more, lol.

CentOS for cPanel machine. Works very much in harmony with cPanel. :)

I'll have to vote for CentOS although I don't like it much. It is the perfect system for cPanel though.

CentOS and cPanel definitely jive well.
-mike

FreeBSD is best in performance and very stabile but not with cpanel i dont recommend it for non UNIX admin and can use port and troubleshooting FreeBSD issue (for me one in year :P)
ٌRedHat and CentOS is the same but centos have widly commuinty for supprot u free

Wow, a lot of great answers here! Definitely did not expect this kind of turn out. Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen! Much appreciated.

centos is very better than other kind of linux and you can run your business with less problem on centos and i use centos on all of my servers.