Hmmn. Performance is likely to be pretty much the same for both
distributions. Open Source software installation is much easier on Debian
[packages are downloaded and pdependencies worked out automatically].
Closed source aps [which you might have a need of] are generally more
available for RPM based distributions.
The TUX webserver, which recently thrashed Apache and IIS 5.0 at
Mirosofts own favourite benchmark [they've used for four years to tell
the world how good IIS is] was created by Red Hat, and will most likely
be ported to Mandrake before Debian, if you so choose to use it.
Mandrake is a billion times easier to administer than Debian, with the
exception of package installation. For a webserver, you probab;ly won't
be adding and removing apps all the time.
Security about the same. Mandrake now hire the bastille people as part of
their devel team, and have significantly imporved in recent times.
Thjings like ReiserFS are alsoquite impotant for web hosting companies.
The overwhelming majority of commercial web serving occurs on Red Hat.
Red Hat and Mandrake aren't 100% compatible any more, but its still rare
you'd run into something hich doesn't work on both [provided its for Red
Hat 6, not 7]
Mike
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Scott Parks wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I do not want to start a Holy War or anything of that nature. I am looking
> for honest success stories on using Mandrake in a production web environment
> for web hosting and postgres for serving the php pages.
>
> My professional experience has been with BSDI, FreeBSD, Solaris and NT for
> hosting. My company is moving off a certain platform now in favor of Linux.
> Since NT and Solaris are not options right now I have been looking at
> Mandrake for production environment.
>
> A guy who works for me tells me that Mandrake can not cut it when it comes to
> production web work and he favors, very strongly, Debian. Telling me that it
> is the strongest for production environments. I have been using Mandrake for
> several years and enjoy it as a personal development platform, connection
> sharing in my house, mp3 jukebox, etc. But, I have never used it for a web
> production environment.
>
> Anyone have some thoughts on this issue? The machines are dual P3's with 18
> gig drives in arrays, 2 gigs ram each. Multiple machines behind Cisco Local
> Director. Mandrake installs fine on each box, Debian is a bit more
> bothersome to configure, but I can not simulate the load of web servers in
> the shop.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Scott
>
>
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