Hey everybody,
I'm willing to setup a new dedicated server that hosts only one website. before I just used Centos, it was free and worked perfect.
I dont want to spend any money for OS.
Which OS do you use? please let me know why!
Thanks
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Hey everybody,
I'm willing to setup a new dedicated server that hosts only one website. before I just used Centos, it was free and worked perfect.
I dont want to spend any money for OS.
Which OS do you use? please let me know why!
Thanks
I use CentOS because it's the most secure and most supported open source enterprise class OS for hosting and business use in general. That is why it is the Community ENTerprise Operating System.
Just my 2 cents :-)
CentOS is compatible with cPanel/WHM. All my servers are using CentOS.
Has anybody used ubuntu with Cpanel? I'm sure someone has but I never had the xp to work with these two in combination!
When CenOS works perfectly, why do you look for an alternative?
Ubuntu isn't compatible with cPanel. cPanel i believe works best on CentOS/Redhat.
One more vote for CentOS. It works perfectly at server environment as far as my experience is concerned.
Great!
well I was just excited to try maybe ubuntu this time. but I think I stick to Centos. I was just browsing cpanel's website and understood that even in new releases they don't support ubuntu.
there are only redhat, and centos that they support.
thanks for sharing ideas. if you have any other experience than centos please let me know. there are many OSs that I never tried and would like to try someday but not for business:D
if you don't want any trouble stick to cent OS ;)
cPanel works perfectly on CentOS, RHEL and Fedora Core 9 but CentOS and cPanel makes an awesome pair, many WHT members would recommend you to go for CentOS. :)
If it ain't broke...
I've used CentOS on a few different dedicated servers since 3.x and they were some of the most reliable systems I've ever used. It sounds like you're familiar with the distribution, so as long as your needs don't necessitate a change, stick with what you know. :)
All my servers also use CentOS and I've never seen/had any problems so If I were you I wouldn't change it.
If you're only hosting 1 website, you don't need cpanel, right? In that case you're not stuck with centos, you can use ubuntu.
By the way it's not the os, it's what you do with it ...
in my opinion, CentOS is a good OS but isn't as robust as debian or fbsd, I use Debian5 and host a few websites and forums, without a control panel at all, (all command line) and to me the system is smoking fast. Im just a little ol skool though.
I'm a FreeBSD fanboy, and I don't particularly care for control panels either, but my policy is use what you're comfortable with.
If you're using cPanel, you really can't go wrong with CentOS, particularly if you're comfortable with it already.
I don't think any of the distributions or OSes are that vastly different that it warrants you switching, if you know your way around one distro stick with it.
I use to use Fedora but had way to many hickups, so I stick to CentOS and nothing ever goes wrong (most months LOL)
Problem with Fedora IMO is that they are always releasing new versions and the old ones are quickly deprecated in which no more updates/support are available. Makes a nice desktop machine but definitely not for a server environment.
CentOS all the way. Great community support, compatible with most software/hardware, rock solid, secure (but as always, a server is only as secure as you make it) and best of all, free!