[dundee] Moving forward with Linux

[gordon dunlop]

2009/2/25 Alan S Frost <alan at biziserve.co.uk>

>  Hi One and All,
>
> I follow the threads that this list produces with great interest and value
> some of the gems that materialise. Thank you all.
>
> I have several questions.
>
> 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?
>

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.

>
> 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).
>

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.

Gordon


> 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.
>
> My requirements are;
>
>    1. A fast server (dual-core, quad-core?)
>    2. A linux flavour that is both secure and easily managed
>    3. Three TB+ of NAS disk storage for archiving and backups
>     4. A control panel / management front-end that is easy to use. (What
>    do you think of Webmin?)
>    5. 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!)
>
> Your thoughts and comments would be gratefully received.
>
> Also, does anyone know of any Linux System Administrators who would be
> available to manage my server part-time?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Frost
>
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