Dexter Ang wrote:
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 00:01, shane c branch wrote:
I currently have RH9 running on one of my servers at work. Now that the
RH project has ended and Fedora has taken its place, I'm considering
either upgrading or reinstalling that box with Fedora.
However, I'm concerned if Fedora will be stable enough for the server. I
would move to RHEL, but my dept isn't too keen on spending money at this
point, which also has me considering going to Debian, as it has a
reputation for stability.
Any opinions appreciated.
This would all depend on what you need. As for me, I am running Fedora
Core 1 on our server without an problems so far. It's running the
following services:
- DNS
- DHCP Server
- Samba File Server
- SMTP and POP3
- MySQL, Apache, PHP for Groupware
- iptables for firewall and NAT.
Hardware it's running on is generic stuff. No name brand servers here.
With 3 IDE 40gb HDD configured as RAID5 array. We're cheap. But it runs
great. Of course, load is hardly ever maximized (maybe 50% at most).
Again, stability, I guess, would depend on what you use the server for.
Generally, Fedora is stable enough as a server. But I hear it's a pain
for SMP machines.
dex
I would be using it for
DCHP
DNS
SAMBA
Potentially some web services, but that would only be for a small <20 users
The hardware is an IBM Netfinity 5000 with dual PIII and 1gb of RAM.
So if you are correct about SMP problems, maybe I should try Debian?
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regards,
shane
