I've always used CentOS for my servers. But now there's this Ubuntu thing taking off!
Is Ubuntu taking off on the server side as well or is Rhat still king?
Is there a site where I can get % numbers for which distros are most popular (on servers, not desktop)?
(This is as a customer/admin not a hosting provider).
Which OS is better in security and easy to use for vps beginner:
CentOS™, Debian™, Ubuntu™, Fedora™, or Gentoo™.?
I am currently using Ubuntu (debian) server 7.10 for web hosting but see a lot of discussions about Linux centos.
Which linux OS do you prefer for hosting and why....
Just figured I would throw that out there.
I asked this question before in the past and I still have to ask it: has anyone used both Ubuntu Server Edition and CentOS? I would like to compare both operating system, in terms of speed, performance, security, and stability.
I have decided to build my new server and use Ubuntu Server Edition 64-bit operating system after using CentOS 64-bit operating system for a bit over a year now.
The reason why I have chosen to use Ubuntu Server Edition is because of the operating system's fabulous reputation among desktop PC users, and its large and helpful support community.
Support is what I need most, and Ubuntu seems to have it. I also am not the best with Linux yet, so it will definitely be needed. Ubuntu also seems to update its software faster than other operating systems.
I hope my decision to switch from CentOS 64-bit to Ubuntu Server Edition 64-bit will not be in vain.
Can anyone compare these two 64-bit operating systems and possibly link me to some reviews, comparisons, and/or benchmark results?
I would imagine there's a source for this but google's not yielding much. I'm looking for a CD/DVD ISO that will essentially auto install and configure a linux box with at least SSH access so I can manually install the rest.
I know bluequartz does this, put the CD and the install auto configures pretty much everything. Where would one find one click install discs for either CentOS or debian/ubuntu?
how to install Ubuntu (either 7.10 or 8.04) as a XEN domU guest on a CentOS 5 / Fedora Core 8 XEN dom0 server?
I have tried installing Ubuntu as a fully virtualized guest, but the Ubuntu CD doesn't even bootup. I get the Linux bootloader, and that's it,it doesn't continue to boot. Odd.
When trying to install a Paravirtualized guest, I had to use the debootstrap method, but can't get it to boot up.
Quote:
xm create anya_zanet
Using config file "/etc/xen/anya_zanet".
Error: (2, 'Invalid kernel', 'xc_dom_find_loader: no loader found
')
This is the xen configuration:
Code:
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img"
builder='linux'
memory = 256
name = "anya_zanet"
vcpus = 1
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
disk = [ 'phy:/dev/System/anya_zanet,hda1,w' , 'phy:/dev/System/anya_zanet,hda2,w' ]
root = "/dev/hda1 ro"
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'
how to get Ubuntu working on a CentOS / Fedora Core XEN server?
way to create a VPN tunnel between two ubuntu servers?
Both will be in seperate datacentres but I'd like a secure tunnel so I can setup jobs to backup to one another.
This has to be done on the server level and cannot be done at the router/firewall as I do not have access to this kit.
Between these linux OS, which one would you choose for in terms of stability & security?
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I tried CentOS, but i cant get grub onto the MBR
This is a tough question cause the distro you choose makes all the difference.
So my question now is if your choices were:
Centos 4 or 5 (32bit or 64bit)
Ubuntu (32bit)
Debian (32bit)
which would you pick and why?
on a side note I believe that the distro that gets picked the most is the one that has the most servers and if someone were to pick one thats not favored by many then he/she may get a faster server cause there wont be so many VPSs on it. Correct in this assumption?
I've been looking for the best OpenSolaris distribution for hosting Solaris Zones backed by ZFS.
I don't know how many good responses I will get back, but my options are below:
OpenSolaris 2008.5 - I've heard slow updates, but this is good for VPS hosting where we don't want many reboots -- release cycles like RedHat.
Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) - Very fast development like Fedora, but bugfixes are released much faster. Downside is much more maintenance to get all those bugfixes.
Nexenta - This is the OpenSolaris kernel built around a GPL userland (Debian based, uses apt, etc). Does anyone have any experience with this? It seems releases are not as fast as SXCE, but quicker than OpenSolaris and it supports all the OpenSolaris features such as Zones/ZFS and even allows for Debian/Ubuntu zones.
Any input would be highly appreciated, especially from those running 1 or more of the above distributions.
i "played" a little bit with linux years ago, with a debian based version, but i think i already forgot everything
So this theres this dedicated server that only has linux , one thing that i know that i'll be using for torrents, but not only it, so in general which distro will be easier for me to handle?
What's your preferred Linux Distro for hosting?
From the web hosting company point of view that is.
Ubuntu how good it is for hosting platform? also what are its advantages over other os?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen we chose Symfony to implement [url], PHP 5 was needed but we only had PHP 4 installed in our Ubuntu hosting servers. We couldn¡¯t just migrate everyone to PHP 5 since some of client¡¯s applications were incompatible with PHP 5. Some tutorials were found online explaining how to run PHP 4 and PHP 5 simultaneously such as [url] and [url]but they all used CGI. As you probably know, CGI is not scalable and we needed to scale in PHP4 and PHP5 since we needed to server millions of hits in both configurations. The following are additional the requirements we had:
1. Run Apache
2. Use mod_php for both PHP versions.
3. Run eAccelerator with both PHP versions.
4. Use as many Ubuntu packages as possible to ease maintenance issues and easily deploy on multiple servers.
5. Use Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS
The solution we came up with was to run Apache 2 with PHP 5 and run Apache 1 with PHP 4 on separate IPs. Ubuntu comes already with these packages. The only package we had to compile was eAccelerator. The following lists the steps taken to get this setup:
Apache 2 with PHP 5
* apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-curl php5-gd php5-mysql php5-dev make php5-mcrypt php5-imap
* vi /etc/php5/cli/php.ini and uncomment extension=mysql.so
* vi /etc/apache2/ports.conf and put Listen Your.IP.Goes.Here:80
* a2enmod expires
* vi /etc/apache2/conf.d/hosting
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /home/httpd/mainpage
ServerName mainpage.com
ServerAlias www.mainpage.com
Options Includes FollowSymlinks
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
</VirtualHost># Cache images and javascripts
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/gif ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/jpeg ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/png ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/x-icon ¡°access plus 4 week¡±
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript ¡°access plus 4 week¡±
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash ¡°access plus 4 week¡±
* cd /usr/local/src
* wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/...-0.9.5.tar.bz2
* tar xjvf eaccelerator-0.9.5.tar.bz2
* cd eaccelerator-0.9.5/
* phpize5
* ./configure
* make
* make install
* mkdir /var/tmp/{eaccelerator4,eaccelerator5}
* chown www-data /var/tmp/eaccelerator*
* chmod 700 /var/tmp/eaccelerator*
* vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and add the following:
zend_extension=¡±/usr/lib/php5/20051025/eaccelerator.so¡±
eaccelerator.shm_size=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.cache_dir=¡±/var/tmp/eaccelerator5¡å
eaccelerator.enable=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.optimizer=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.check_mtime=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.debug=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.filter=¡±"
eaccelerator.shm_max=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_only=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.compress=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.compress_level=¡±9¡å
Apache 1 with PHP 4
* apt-get install libapache-mod-php4 php4-mysql php4-gd apache-ssl apache-common libzzip-0-12 php4-common php4-dev apache
* dpkg-reconfigure apache and uncheck mod_userdir and check mod_php4 and cancel on hostname
* vi /etc/apache/httpd.conf and make sure to add this
Listen Your.SECONDIP.Goes.Here:80
NameVirtualHost *# Cache images and javascripts
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/gif ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/jpeg ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/png ¡°access plus 1 week¡±
ExpiresByType image/x-icon ¡°access plus 4 week¡±
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript ¡°access plus 4 week¡±
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash ¡°access plus 4 week¡±Remove the following
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /icons/ /usr/share/apache/icons/
<Directory /usr/share/apache/icons>
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /images/ /usr/share/images/
<Directory /usr/share/images>
Options MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_alias.c>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>
Change
<Directory />
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod
* cd /usr/local/src
* rm -rf eaccelerator-0.9.5
* tar xjvf eaccelerator-0.9.5.tar.bz2
* cd eaccelerator-0.9.5/
* phpize4
* ./configure ¨Cwith-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config4
* make
* make install
* vi /etc/php4/apache/php.ini and add the following:
zend_extension=¡±/usr/lib/php4/20050606/eaccelerator.so¡±
eaccelerator.shm_size=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.cache_dir=¡±/var/tmp/eaccelerator4¡å
eaccelerator.enable=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.optimizer=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.check_mtime=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.debug=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.filter=¡±"
eaccelerator.shm_max=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_ttl=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_prune_period=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.shm_only=¡±0¡å
eaccelerator.compress=¡±1¡å
eaccelerator.compress_level=¡±9¡å
I'm interested in having an unmanaged VPS with Ubuntu 7.1 or 8.04 installed (or available to Rebuild under the HyperVM) from the state of Missouri (should have at least some IPs already available from the region).
View 2 Replies View RelatedAre there any issues with Running Cpanel w/ WHM? long story short I heard it had issues with making domains and users because root isn't a user..? I like ubuntu but never ran cpanel on it. I want to use Ubuntu on my dedi. I'm not trying to start a ubuntu vs centos.
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View 14 Replies View Relatedi upgraded by mistake my ubuntu server to 9.10 from 8.04
How can i downgrade it to 8.04 without loosing My settings?
I am all too familiar with php on my win box but now am working on Linux.
the extension_dir is commented out (??) however CURL does work but there is nothing about CURL in php.ini. I cant find any php.so files.
Also the php.ini file lives in /etc/php5/apache2
Does this look like a standard install? Where do the .so files live?
Ultimatly I want to install Turck MMCache which requires some extensions and when ever I try to do phpize there is the error message
Cannot find config.m4 (google is not helping solve the problem)
apt-get install m4 says I have the latest version.
phpize is a shortcut in usr/bin that points to etc/alternatives/phpize which in turn is a shortcut to usr/bin/phpize5
I am trying to create a database using the following method:./mysqladmin create db
But I get the following error:./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
I am new to configuring mysql. I have installed it etc but not sure how to start it. I tried the following to start the server:moe@moe-desktop:/usr/local/mysql$ sudo bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql
I've just ordered a dedicated server with Ubuntu server, but they've come back to me to say that they've had trouble installing Ubuntu server on these particular servers.
As an alternative, they're offering to install Debian. My concern is that I come from a windows background and have spent the last month reading and playing with Ubuntu Server in vmware. I'll be running a small handful of sites on the server and will rely on the apt-get and package installer in webmin to get things set up and for administration. I'll dabble in the shell a little, but only when needed.
Should I go with a different host that can offer Ubuntu, or will I be okay with Debian?
I have just ordered a VPS from VPSempire to learn more about web servers and server in general.
I hope to install a few free control panels to play around with, webmin doesn't seem enough, what do you recommend?
The VPS is very low spec:
5gb Hard Disk Quota
50gb Monthly Bandwidth
128mb Guaranteed Ram
256mb Burstable Ram
Does any host have VPS's running Ubuntu?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI've been working all day with members at ubuntu forums, I need serious help please
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2067895&posted=1#post206789
I restarted again in live boot mode of course and now when I go to computer I see the 104.8GB volume drive. (wasn't there before), this is the Windows partition
When I try to open it I get an error
unable to mount the selected volume
error: device /dev/sda2 is not removable
error: could not execute pmount
So I ran sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows -t ntfs -r -o uid=999,gid=999,umask=444
and now I get "you do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of 'windows'
how do I configure a minimal/basic sendmail/postfix mail server on an ubuntu 7.04 server edition? I tried with postfix but I ran only into errors.
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my os is windows xp
how may i remote to ubuntu by windows?
Have been trying to get BFD and APF Antidos (not at same time) to work on Ubuntu 5.10 / Plesk and 6.06 (No Plesk yet) servers. APF appears to work fine after checking /sbin/iptables -L -n
Both cronjobs run but getting a lot of brute force attacks to ssh and Plesk but no offending IP's are being blocked and no e-mails reporting that they are being blocked. Log files for BFD and Antidos are always "0". Everything setup and configured the same as on my previous CentOS servers.
Can't find much on the net with this newer OS. Can anyone point me in the right direction to get one of these to work on the systems above? Thought it might be a path error referencing rc.d but put a symlink in for that and no change.
The past week I've been trying to answer the hardest question. I'm an expert windows user and a Novice Linux user.
I have a server built and ready for an operating system, this will be a development server for database and web development. It will also likely turn into an encrypted file server as well.
I do not plan on doing much else other then that.
Is it worth it to struggle through and learn the Linux command line or should I go for Windows Server something I am more familiar with?
I've considered VMware although I have "Fake Raid" and ESXi does not see my Raid-1 setup.