<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/25 Alan S Frost <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan@biziserve.co.uk">alan@biziserve.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hi One and All,<br>
<br>
I follow the threads that this list produces with great interest and
value some of the gems that materialise. Thank you all.<br>
<br>
I have several questions.<br>
<br>
Would Debian be considered the most secure and stable production
capable Linux on the market currently? If not, which one would be? What
advantage(s) does this new operating system have over Fedora 7?<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>You will need an O.S. that has long term support e.g. Centos 5.2, Debian Lenny, Ubuntu Server LTS. Fedora has only support for approx. 15 months for a particular version e.g 2 versions + 3 months. Support for Fedora 8 is now finishing as Fedora 10 has been out for a few months. </div>
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I currently manage my hosting business on a Fedora 7 box with Plesk CP
(so-so OK, but easy to use.) and qmail (ugh - I formerly used Postfix -
brilliant).<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I can't help you on this as I havn't used these administration panels but I do remember last year at one of the meetings someone was talking about Webmin, so if here reads this perhaps he can give his tuppence worth on this.<br>
<br>Gordon <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div bgcolor="#ccffff" text="#000000"><br>
My business is now growing and I wish to upgrade to a new server so I
am going through the due diligence associated with the migration.<br>
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My requirements are;<br>
<ol>
<li>A fast server (dual-core, quad-core?)</li>
<li>A linux flavour that is both secure and easily managed</li>
<li>Three TB+ of NAS disk storage for archiving and backups<br>
</li>
<li>A control panel / management front-end that is easy to use. (What
do you think of Webmin?)</li>
<li>A good strategy of migrating from the old sever to the new one.
(The one good thing about Plesk CP is you can use it to migrate from
one Plesk server to the next. The bad thing is Plesk hog-ties your
ability to manage otherwise free OSS by using heavily customised
software versions [e.g. qmail and spamassassin] which can crash the
server if you mess it up!)</li>
</ol>
Your thoughts and comments would be gratefully received.<br>
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Also, does anyone know of any Linux System Administrators who would be
available to manage my server part-time?<br>
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<div>Many thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
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Alan Frost<br>
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