On 3/24/06, Ken Schneider
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:50 +0100, Steve Graegert wrote:
On 3/24/06, Matthew Stringer
wrote: Should add that we're responsible for the boxes customers don't get root access.
However our current platform runs on FreeBSD, but the problem we're having there is that the hardware compatability isn't as good as Linux, this is bargain basement hosting and the servers we're using are essentially desktops, we find that the chipset revisions are constantly changing and frequently find that BSD won't install on a new server that was supposed to be identical to our current stock without manual intervention. Linux suffers with this problem far less which makes deployment costs lower.
Ok, so your hardware platforms are changing constantly? This makes things different. With a free Linux distribution you're always at risk that support for security updates will end some day. Usually, it should not be that hard to patch server systems manually (assisted by some sort of automation). My recommendation in this case: Debian.
Why not use a more powerful server and then use VMWare GSX server and create virtual machines? That way the -hardware- is always the same. Or use Zen.
I do Zen everyday but it refuses to run my virtual machines :-) \Steve