View Poll Results: Which OS do you recommend?

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  • Free BSD 4.9

    3 16.67%
  • RedHat 9

    6 33.33%
  • RedHat Enterprise Edition 3

    7 38.89%
  • Debain

    2 11.11%
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  1. #1
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    Question OS Choice for cPanel/Mail Server

    Hello,

    Please vote for your recommended OS for a cPanel server being used as a mail server. Server Specs: P4 2.8GHZ HT, 80GB HD, 1gb RAM

    Free BSD 4.9
    RedHat 9
    RedHat Enterprise Edition 3
    Debain

    Thanks and God Bless!
    David Garza
    CCF Web Hosting - Where Customers Come First!
    Phone: 1.630.885.9009 | Email: david(a)ccfhosting.com
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  2. #2
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    http://www.centos.org/

    http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

    Each of these is based off of the RHEL3 OS and are completely free (open source under the GPL).

    Your best two choices.

  3. #3
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    i recommend centos
    Steven Ciaburri | Industry's Best Server Management - Rack911.com
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    Fully Managed Dedicated Servers (Las Vegas, New York City, & Amsterdam) (AS62710)
    FreeBSD & Linux Server Management, Security Auditing, Server Optimization, PCI Compliance

  4. #4
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    The reason I mentioned above is because that is all Server Matrix supports at the time.

    Thanks and God Bless!
    David Garza
    CCF Web Hosting - Where Customers Come First!
    Phone: 1.630.885.9009 | Email: david(a)ccfhosting.com
    MSN: dgarza(a)ccfhosting.com | AIM: CCF DGarza | ICQ: 51140109

  5. #5
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    although i'm freebsd guy i voted for redhat E3.0 seems cpanel develop so much toward redhat rather than freebsd..
    Bashar Al-Abdulhadi - KuwaitNET Internet Services Serving customers since 1997
    Kuwait's First Webhosting and Domain Registration provider - an ICANN Accredited Registrar

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  6. #6
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    I have heard that Debian is very stable, but dont know if it's working fine with cPanel. I am going to have a Debian box, so is there any one pls help me to answer this question?
    Last edited by gate2vn; 05-30-2004 at 10:59 AM.

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