On 1/25/07, PV Sundarram wrote:
hey,
On 1/24/07, krishnakant Mane researchbase@gmail.com wrote:
but if at all I were to setup a server, will fedora suit the server requirements? there will be only gnome installed and that too wont run by default because I am going to set the machine to init level 3. we are supposed to run a ftp server which will mostly be proftpd and also apache server with php support. mysql5 will also be installed on the server.
There are 2 things to consider here. 1. Redora is Community Supported - So Do Not Expect things like Redhat Network. But that aside, unless you intend on installing commercial apps like oracle, db2 or websphere or others like it that are epecificall certifed for rhel, fedora is more than adequate. 2. Also YUM in combination with Fedora Extras is one of the most powerful tools there is, and IMHO that's enough to push it to become a better server choice than RHEL for non-commercial/non-certified apps. Almost every piece of software you want, from webservers(apache,tux,lighttpd), databases(mysql,postgresql), web app servers/languages(tomcat, jboss-jpackage, php perl, python etc.), and even full applications like egroupware, mantis, wordpress, jabberd2/ejabberd, ser, and many many more are built in to the repositories. 3. As long as you keep your system up to date via yum, i dont believe there should be any significan diff in terms of security between Fedora and RHEL with the same packages.
So, Feel Free to go ahead and use fedora.
its a good distro...
so since the customer wants fedora I wont be ready to start a distro
flame war as long as fedora can handle the needs of a secured stable server. the setup is in narel which is away from mumbai so I can't go there very often hence I need a stable server.
most of the hosting service providers give the option of either fedora or redhat for a dedicated server.... correct me if i am wrong....
True, i have 5 dedicated servers that are runnig fedora in the us, and they are usually a pleasure to manage remotely, so i see no issues with u managing a server in mumbai. And yes, except for 3 which were self owned servers, all the other 3 were installed with fedora by the hosting company and given to us, and the 2 owned servers had to be installed by us. Irrespective of who installed, all the hosting companies supported a fedora system for their management services. One of those hosting companies even mirrors fedora-core and fedora-updates for FC5 on their local lan, saving us internet bandwidth and making updates extremely fast.
Regard's R. K. Rajeev