On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Carl Hartung
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?
Well, I lost interest once I found out I had to pay to get the ispconfig manual. I did finid it curious that the author useds zypper and yast2 to install. I would have thought zypper would have been capapble of everything. Too many steps. The author should have done a manual config to setup network instead of going back in to fix it. Otherwise, I guess it was an ok how-to. As for using it for business, I'd have to recommend the target audience considering SLEx over openSUSE because of the limited timeframe on updates. I'm not sure that a business would want to have to re-install/upgrade every 2 years....... If openSUSE came out with a LTS like uBuntu has then it wouldn't be an issue. Not having to do an OS update for 5 years would be nice. I'm still on 11.0, which is only 3 years old. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org