What OS Do You Use?

[TonyB]

CentOS for DedicatedNOW boxes and Redhat Enterprise for ThePlanet boxes. So basically the same OS. Well reason for using them well I'm just most familiar with them so no reason to switch it up.

 

[HMarker]

CentOS for *nix Servers, Windows 2003 Web Edition for Win servers.

 

[DediZoneCS]

CentOS

CentOS all the way. We use if for our webhosting and have been happy with it all the way.

DediZoneCS

 

[gate2vn]

CentOS and Windows 2003 currently. Take some FreeBSD machines soon

 

[WhereTolook]

CentOS here too It has most of the built in tools needed for an enterprise setup...

 

[Apolo]

RedHat and Fedora Core 4

Regards,

Jaime

 

[thibot]

Our customers use: FreeBSD, CentOS, Debian, Fedora core, red hat enterprises.. for .asp users.. windows 2003!

 

[ecsportal]

CentOS/Slackware/Debian/Fedora

Depending on preference of the customer.

 

[hebergeo]

Red Hat/FreeBsd / Open Bsd .... Red hat is easy to go with. But might not be the best bet depending on your machine.

 

[ThinkSupport]

CentOS is what I prefer personally.

 

[hostechsupport]

Hello,

For a new hosting company it is always good to get a dedicated server with Linux as the OS and the base control panel as cpanel since it is more user friendly.

Cpanel servers are good servers with more stability to perform and consume a good amount of clients on a single server.

Thank you.

Regards,

 

[PWRseth]

CentOS4.4 and Fedora4/5

 

[D'Godown]

CentOs Debian and Suse, because all 3 backed by big communities and i neve had any problem with them, never.

 

[zwisted]

Hi,
We use freeBSD on all our servers..

 

[Addmember]

I think OS isn't the thing that an average end-user thinks about while choosing a hoster. He thinks about disk space and price, and only in case he can't run his scripts he has to think about OS. Correct me if I'm wrong...

 

[PWRseth]

I've just installed a new vps with Debian 3.1 and am very impressed with the difference in speed compared to CentOS 4.4.

 

[accuurrtt]

I use CentOS 4. 4. I like it very much.

 

[WiredTree Zac]

We use CentOS 4 - it is a very reliable and compatible. We even use it over RedHat Enterprise unless an application requires RHE (like Oracle).

 

[EQWebHost]

We use CentOs on all of our servers. We choose this because of its connection with cPanel. It just seems to perform better with cPanel then others. If i'm not mistaken, it is the only OS that can run cPanel?

 

[tickedon]

We use CentOs on all of our servers. We choose this because of its connection with cPanel. It just seems to perform better with cPanel then others. If i'm not mistaken, it is the only OS that can run cPanel?

Nope :smash:

http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPanelandWHM/linux/sys_requirements.htm

Quite a few OS's can run it

I think the main reason cPanel & CentOS are so commonly used together, is that 'back in the day', Red Hat (7.3 & 9) & cpanel were all the rage and that's what big companies like Rackshack (then Ev1Servers, Now Ev1servers-ThePlanet) were offering to the masses. When Red Hat split the line into Red Hat Enterprise (big $$$ each year for the support subscription and what not) and Fedora ('consumer goodness'), CentOS came along and basically take "Red Hat Enterprise v'X'" and rebrand it as "Cent OS", and make it available to free to everyone. As such, rather than paying for Red Hat Enterprise, everyone has moved from RedHat onto Cent OS.

So that's Red Hat -> Red Hat Enterprise -> Cent OS. Which sorta explains the common cPanel link