What OS Do You Use?

[rshosting]

CentOS for me

 

[eukvps]

We use CentOS , because updates and rpms are easily available , Installation of OS like RHEL and Fedora 6 are charged by DC, and thus CentOS is best among all free avaliable OS.

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[ScalaHosting]

CentOS here too

 

[SharedRack.com]

We use Cent.OS 4.5 Enterprise

 

[Zoodia]

CentOS 4 here at the moment (5 on the local fun machine).

 

[Rob]

We also use CentOS 4 / 5 on our boxes unless otherwise instructed by the client.

 

[BonsaiRack]

Fedora has my vote. Stability.

 

[indyamail]

Every single OS that I can get my hands on ...but preference I give Centos a thumbs up.

 

[dougeth]

Although I'm stuck using Windows at work. Fedora all the way at home!

 

[vpsville]

Os

We've done the Redhat Enterprise, FreeBSD, Fedora thing but after trying Debian we switched everything over.

Doing a full security update in one line and watching absolutely nothing break won my heart over instantly.

They say its a nightmare to write packages for Debian but man, it sure is a joy using them.

 

[dbihosting]

Right now, CentOS 5 is my OS of choice.

 

[depache]

for hosting yes i'm red hat lover. its secure,stabel and perfect with control panel

 

[vpsville]

All linuxes are very close if properly maintained, but I find Debian is still the best for security and package management. Linux is not the best for performance, no matter what flavour you have.

That said, FreeBSD has a superior kernel/IO performance but is a bit messy to work with.

This project should really improve things when its done, GNU Debian on top of the FreeBSD kernel!!
http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/

 

[Chris_M]

I have a mix of CentOS 4 and 5 on my servers. Been using it since I started out and have not had any issues. :thumbup:

 

[mrjones]

Centos is the best for us.


MrJones

 

[Kevin K]

We use either Centos or Redhat Enterprise. The 2 are very similar and does not make a difference to us which one we use. Any other operating systems we have not used personally on our servers and do not see the need to.

 

[456and]

We use Centos for our web servers that run cpanel. We also never run into any trouble. FreeBSD is also a great OS with a good package manager

 

[diligent]

CentOS for the most part

 

[vpsville]

We use Debian, but we've used CentOS, Fedora and FreeBSD in the past. CentOS is great if you like RedHat style tools (rpm's).

Fedora was great for test servers but proved to be a pain on production machines. Its changing too quickly and its clearly meant to herd corporate users to their commercial RedHat products.

All linux systems are 99.5% identical but the management tools differ slightly. FreeBSD was great but just too much of a headache to administer. Wonderful performance on FreeBSD though.

Debian is the easiest to admin and update (IMO), but has the steepest learning curve of any Linux. Well worth it though.

Ubuntu server is very popular nowadays but I've never used it personally. That may prove to be the best of both worlds, easy and foolproof.

 

[Rob]

We use Server 2003, Server 2008 and CentOS 5. All cpanel servers are running CentOS as well as Ubuntu Linux which comes on dedicated.