[dundee] Moving forward with Linux

[gordon dunlop]

2009/2/27 gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com>

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> 2009/2/25 Alan S Frost <alan at biziserve.co.uk>
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>>  Hi One and All,
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>> I follow the threads that this list produces with great interest and value
>> some of the gems that materialise. Thank you all.
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>> I have several questions.
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>> 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?
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> Ammendment -

> 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. 13 months for
> a particular version e.g 2 versions + 1 month. Support for Fedora 8 is now
> finished as Fedora 10 has been out for ver a month.
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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).
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> 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.
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> Gordon
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>> 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.
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>> My requirements are;
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>>    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!)
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>> Your thoughts and comments would be gratefully received.
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>> Also, does anyone know of any Linux System Administrators who would be
>> available to manage my server part-time?
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>> Many thanks in advance,
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>> Alan
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>> Alan Frost
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>> T: 01764 650966
>> E: alan at biziserve.co.uk
>> W: www.biziserve.co.uk
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