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AmeliaG · 12-21-2021, 07:53 PM

What operating system do you like best for your servers?

I just always tend to go with whatever my host seems to prefer, but occasionally one or another coder will say something else might be better. Do you find there are some server environments which are easier to get developers working in or otherwise better?

mixing · 12-22-2021, 02:49 AM

I've always been a cPanel/WHM fan and that's pretty much always run on CentOS. I think you can run cPanel on other distros (like Ubuntu) but I've personally used CentOS for years now and it's my personal preference..

lezinterracial · 12-22-2021, 03:31 AM

I think the consensus here a few years ago was CentOS. I see Ubuntu in many places.

For you my little home play project. I just use LAMP on Raspbian. Running a Pi 3. Very simple static site though. Nothing fancy running and it doesn't matter if it goes down.

trevesty · 12-22-2021, 03:45 AM

Probably depends on the host. Most experienced hosts will have a preferred distro and their lead techs will have a bunch of scripts written to automate a lot of day-to-day stuff amongst other things.

This is assuming you go managed / semi-managed and don't want to waste server resources on something like cpanel / directadmin.

ZTT · 12-22-2021, 04:41 AM

A 'developer' will call anything they aren't used to/don't understand worse.

Personally I don't see any reason to use anything but Debian (or Ubuntu if there's a good reason).

hdbuilder · 12-22-2021, 11:38 AM

Centos...

sandman! · 12-22-2021, 03:08 PM

https://almalinux.org/ + directadmin is our standard setup.

Klen · 12-23-2021, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZTT

A 'developer' will call anything they aren't used to/don't understand worse.

Personally I don't see any reason to use anything but Debian (or Ubuntu if there's a good reason).

Cent os before it went tits up, now debian. I see zero reason to try any other distribution.
Freebsd was quite popular due it's jailing capabilities , but that is only single advantage as getting things works on freebsd takes much longer compared to centos/debian, plus you can deploy jail on it as well, just not on default.

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