On 5/10/2011 4:03 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
Hi All,
You may be aware I've been studying this possibility for awhile. I've actually found some hosting companies offering openSUSE as an alternative to the usual mix (CentOS, FreeBSD, etc.)
I then came across this March 14, 2011 article:
"The Perfect Server - OpenSUSE 11.4 x86_64 w/ ISPConfig 3" http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-opensuse-11.4-x86_64-ispconfig-3
I'd like to hear reactions, opinions and ideas, good or bad, about putting some systems like this into production, either on a one-off basis for a small business, or, in combination with Virtualbox as the basis for providing retail shared hosting and virtual private servers?
TIA & regards,
Carl
With the short life span of Opensuse releases I would never think of deploying it as my customer-facing web site. Too many forced re installations needed as your release reaches its termination date AND/OR too many risky in-place upgrades. Can't say SLES is any better because its so enterprise focused, you'd spend a lot of time stripping features out, but at least it has a longer shelf life. A Rolling release makes more sense for this duty. Especially one that had a server only version. Arch Linux makes a lot of sense for this type of thing. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org