On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:38 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS but > what makes them different to Debian? I have done a lot of reading and > research on Debian and my impression of, particularly stable is that > it is one of the most reliable, stable GNU/Linux systems available out > there.
You can defenitely use Debian. Debian Stable (Sarge) is about a stable as it gets - you have to shoot at the box to make it stop :-). I am running a couple of web/mail/dns hosting servers running ISPconfig on Sarge. None of them have ever given any problems. One of the things that I like about Debian over RHEL etc. is the ease of updating the system, if needs be. One of the above mentioned systems is more a testbed than anything else, so I'm often asked to add stuff or update mysql/php/whatever. After using backports for a while, and selectively, by hand, installing debs from testing, I decided to dist-upgrade to Etch, and guess what? It went absolutely smoothly - not a single problem. I had to adapt a few config files here and there, but nothing that wasn't obvious. Last time I upgraded a RH server (7.1 to 7.2) I spent a week sorting out problems. Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
