Re: Debian as a Web server
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:38:35 +0200
"Justin Hartman" <jjhartman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not
> sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I
> am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian
> stable as a web server in a production environment.
>
> I have noticed that Red Hat, Suse, CentOS, Fedora, etc. appear to
> dominate the web server market as the backend powering most
> production servers and I'm wondering why Debian doesn't feature?
>
> I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS
> but what makes them different to Debian? I have done a lot of
> reading and research on Debian and my impression of, particularly
> stable is that it is one of the most reliable, stable GNU/Linux
> systems available out there.
>
> Maybe I'm missing some key issue here (and clearly I must be) but
> it makes logical sense to me to power a production server with the
> most stable system... surely?
>
> Regards
> Justin
>
>
I have two running Debian Sarge right now. One doing nothing but
serving web sites and the other doing mail and web. Don't know
about anyone else.
--
Raquel
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