Re: Debian on a Dedicated Server
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:40:23AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:13:01 -0700, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> > Retard-style quoting fixed. Please do it yourself in the future.
> > http://learn.to/quote/
> >
> > Stelios Asmargianakis <linux@climbincrete.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:13:40 -0400 Ryan Waye <rmw998@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I am not sure what you mean by "...But if it needs to compile
> > >> everything from scratch..."
> > >>
> > >> can you please clarify?
> > >
> > > For example if I need apache 2, it would be necessary to compile
> > > that than starting straight editing httpd.conf as it will be in RedHat
> > > as it is installed by the default installation.
> >
> > Hmm, that's odd, there's apache2 packages in unstable. Are you sure you
> > bothered to answer this for yourself before you mailed?
>
> But not in stable; which is what he has the opportunity to use.
>
> If you have full control over the machine, you could opt for debian
> stable and upgrade to either testing or unstable relatively painlessly
> to use apache2.
>
For a production server that isn't supposed to also be used for a
workstation, stable with backports is probably better. Just keeping it
up to date with testing or unstable requires weekly maintenance at
least and to keep track of what may be broken.
For a desktop you can take the hour to get it back up with a problematic
package, and more importantly, you may only find that there is a problem
with it after some time (I do use unstable myself for desktops, and for
that its no trouble keeping it in shape, but for remote machines its
harder)
As for apache, if you are going to use php with your webserver, them
there is a debate whether to use apache2 or 1.3 (some of the third
party modules and external libraries may not be thread safe). Take note
though that you can use the forking server to be safe (which is what I
am doing), although its not clear how much of an advantage it is
over 1.3. To run it with the threading server it would take quite a bit
of work (probably no relation to which distribution (including
redhat/fc).
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