Re: Hosting advice

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:22:37 -0700
> David Guntner <david@guntner.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been a happy customer of Dreamhost for many years.  They support
> > mailing lists, announcement lists, as many hosted mailboxes and
> > forwarding addresses as you can handle, offer both shared hosting and
> > VPS services, and are running Linux.  Currently my VPS is Debian, though
> > they announced recently that they're going to be switching to Ubuntu so
> > that they can get new software updates faster than Debian typically
> > supplies them.  But I figure that will still *feel* like Debian, so I'm
> > not that worried about it. :-)
> I'm curious: how important is getting updates fast in the context of a
> server? I understand that for desktops, some want the latest features,
> or support for new hardware, etc. but servers? Doesn't it make more
> sense to just run something like Debian *stable*?
>
> I am no hosting expert, so it's not a criticism - I'm just curious.
For what it's worth, I'm still running Lenny on a couple of servers - 
chugging away hosting some email accounts, some email lists, some web 
sites.  The rest are running Squeeze.  Keep meaning to move everything 
to Wheezy, but just haven't set aside the time.  (HA setup, lots of 
stuff wired together, doing a major upgrade and keeping everything up 
while updating what's underneath is just a right royal pain).  There's a 
good case to be made for waiting for a release to be stable, then 
sticking with it until you need unsupported features.

Miles Fidelman

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