> My company is buying a new Dell server (2x2.4GHz P4 Xeon, 2Gb RAM, 73Gb > RAID 1 SCSI) for our production customer facing web site and I have been > trying to decide on which Linux distribution to use. It needs to run > Apache, tomcat, sendmail, mysql, php and bind and have minimum downtime. > We normally have about 25Gb of HTTP traffic a month, but is likely to > double over the next 12 months. I am not fussed about having paid for > support (that's my job!) > > I was going to choose RH9 (after deciding against Debian), but I just > found out about Fedora. Is Core 1 suitable for this type of environment? > Or would you recommend I go with RH9 or Debian. I'd recommend going with RH9 (or RH8) for now. You may want to think about Enterprise if this is mission-critical, but it's not really necessary. My only Enterprise boxen are the pair in my Samba fileserver cluster. Everything else I run Red Hat on (30+ machines) is 7.1 thru 9. And those are machines that run DHCP, BIND, Postfix, Apache (both with and without FP extensions), Coldfusion, Qmail, Samba, VS-FTP, PHP, MySQL, PosgreSQL, and some proprietary stuff. We've even got COBOL running on RH (for a little longer - we're replacing that app). Bottom line - I personally wouldn't put Fedora into production yet. --B C
