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08-11-2010, 02:35 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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CentOS or Ubuntu or Debian
Presently it seems max people tend to use these 3 free Distros for setting up LAMP servers. I would like to know the communities opinion as to what they use/prefer and why?
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08-11-2010, 02:39 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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CentOS for its stability and ease of use. You don't need the bleeding edge thechnology that ubuntu offers for a simple thing such as LAMP. No need a fast release cycle or always new updates, simply a stable and powerfull OS
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08-11-2010, 03:48 PM #3Private Citizen
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CentOS is still putting out solid releases, as long as they do I'm all in. Debian needs to be punched in the face for some of the annoying things you have to do. It's not so much telling it what to do, but rather tricking it into doing what you want it to do.
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08-12-2010, 09:01 AM #4WHT Addict
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I am using both Debian and CentOS on my servers.
The main advantage of Debian over CentOS is that there is a lot more software included and maintained by the developers. Packages like Apache 2, Lighttpd, nginx, phpMyAdmin, OpenVZ, Xen, or KVM are all included.
CentOS advantage over Debian is that it is better supported by commercial software. Software like cPanel or SolusVM are only available for CentOS.
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08-12-2010, 09:14 AM #5Private Citizen
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Here's one more take on my personal views. At least what I'm comfortable with in my experience, or inexperience with one over the other.
CentOS = Solid/Stable/Reliable (Would use for Production)
Debian = Middle Ground (Would use for Dev and some Production)
Ubuntu = Bleeding Edge (Generally only use for Dev)
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08-12-2010, 09:28 AM #6Junior Guru
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For stability where the latest things aren't a big deal, or where only one or two things matter that you could easy update yourself, Debian and CentOS (and RHEL) are unbeatable.
For super-new hardware and a system that needs the absolute latest mostly-stable packages, Fedora. Bonus points include that the environment is identical to industry standard CentOS/RHEL.
I never really seen Ubuntu as a server OS, after all it's just over-glorified Debian. I believe naïve new sysadmins think that since Ubuntu is "easy" as a Desktop OS it automatically makes it "easy" as a server OS.
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08-12-2010, 09:37 AM #7Private Citizen
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A good example of CentOS being friendly to me was the other day; installing SugarCRM for a client.
The client preferred Debian, which complained and barked during the whole trying to get things installed for Sugar. Fired up CentOS, done in 5-7 minutes; start to finish.
So on that note, there is no one is better than the other. Just like everything else, use whatever is best for you, your needs, your company needs, etc. Everything should fall into place as needed if you use what works for you and not what somebody else says works for them.
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08-13-2010, 09:39 PM #8WHT Addict
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Ive always preferred Centos, mainly because its hands down, the most reliable and solid one.
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08-13-2010, 10:05 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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I have always used CentOS. It gets the job done.
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08-14-2010, 08:38 AM #10Web Hosting Guru
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CentOS for general hosting servers. Others, such as Ubuntu, only if you use the server to run software on it, e.g. some free virtualization software, that has been developed on an Ubuntu platform and the developers suggest using Ubuntu -- in other words, only if you have a specific reason to use it instead of CentOS.
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08-14-2010, 08:55 AM #11Newbie
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CentOS for general cases and because cPanel support. Debian is I think better if you want to use specific packages like lighttpd etc
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08-14-2010, 01:38 PM #12Support Facility
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I am fan of CentOS. Its works great for linux platform.
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08-14-2010, 01:50 PM #13Lord of live chats
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I use centos , i just prefer redhat based distros
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08-14-2010, 03:03 PM #14Junior Guru Wannabe
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It's really just what you prefer. If you're used to using apt-get, go with Debian (I use Lenny).
Or if you need support with some RedHat applications on your server or if you want to go with cPanel, go with CentOS.
I wouldn't however use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is just somewhat of a RAM hog compared to its older brother (Debian). You can't go wrong with any of them though. Just use what you're confortable with. If you're a newbie at using Linux, I would personally go with an operating system like Debian. The Debian community is so large and you can even look on the Ubuntu docs because they're very similar.
If you're more advanced, you could also try FreeBSD (which isn't technically a LAMP system) which is very fast and also great on resources.
Hope that helps!
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08-15-2010, 08:51 AM #15Web Hosting Guru
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In the future I do plan to migrate to FreeBSD, but for now I am happy learning the Linux Ropes.
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08-15-2010, 12:39 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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I would say go for centos
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08-15-2010, 01:44 PM #17Web Hosting Guru
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FreeBSD has major version updates about every half year. There are disadvantages to that. You're not "loosing out" on anything by going with RedHat Linux or CentOS.
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08-16-2010, 12:36 PM #18Web Hosting Guru
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Debian for its stability, security and because it's rock solid
CentOS because its more up2date than Debian so less time to set it up...
The above two just rock
Ubutnu...I never use use this one as servers are not Work stations and do not need to have the cutting edge software right after the day of release...
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08-16-2010, 02:30 PM #19Junior Guru
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I use mostly CentOS on all my servers. Easy to use and very stable
Ubuntu is very nice because the large package repo which includes almost everything.
I also like the EXT4 filesystem that is included by default @ Ubuntu.
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08-17-2010, 08:18 PM #20Newbie
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CentOS all the way. It has compatibility with every major control panel, it is so stable and tested. It isn't so good if you want to have shell access for users to develop, but every distribution is nearly the same, different files in different places, and comes with different packages. So it is really what you make of it. But CentOS is so easy to get LAMP out of the box.
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08-19-2010, 08:19 AM #21Web Hosting Master
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I think you should just ignore the people saying "I have always used X" because that means they don't know the others.
One thing for sure: use Debian and not Ubuntu. Ubuntu has a way too much updates, pickup packages from Debian Unstable without checking them (I had many issues with this, trying to push them to update my Debian packages, and having issues with Ubuntu specific bugs that should have been corrected).
I'm a Debian Developer, and frankly, I hate writing RPMs. It's really not convenient, I think it's totally silly to write all the maintainer scripts in a single file. However, yum did a lot of progress (I quite know, because I maintain yum in Debian so we can all use it to install a CentOS VPS in a Debian distro).
As for people talking about "major panels", well, that would be a reason not to use these panels, IMHO.
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08-19-2010, 10:08 AM #22Newbie
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I prefer to use CentOS as it is easier and faster to maintain it and there are lots of resource on the Internet to get help.
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08-19-2010, 12:11 PM #23New Member
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i would just like to know were to download a good version of centos 5.5 as i have downloaded every copy there is at centos and all of them have a bug and wont install i went back to an old version 4.8 and it installed fine but cant get 5.5 to work
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08-19-2010, 12:12 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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Can you please try to refrain yourself from posting such type of (useless) comment? We already had many of the same. The OP asked people to COMPARE 2 things (well 3 things, but you got my point), and the above doesn't help at all in this regard, IMHO. You don't even tell why you think it's faster for example, or tell about your experience with other distro.
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