On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless you have talked to *anyone* handling a large deployment, all you > can do is speculate about their needs which isn't useful. Not many > people will explain the specifics for you in a public mailing list. > Deployment use cases and requirements are often treated as confidential.
Yeah, since when did the Enterprise looked to public mailing lists for answers and shared plans of their deployments? Glad, you put the public mailing list in its place. Yet, when the OP was looking for a LAMP setup, it was immediately assumed he is an Enterprise guy and there was a completely unjustified suggestion "Don't touch (even think about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server platform for new production apps". How is this useful? Make no mistake, I have nothing against RHEL/CentOS but you cannot trivialize another distro like Ubuntu just like that, or argue that a completely arbitrary N-years support cycle is the clincher without considering the specific internals of the organization itself. If tomorrow, RHEL or Ubuntu provided 20 years extended support for every release, will it be any more useful? Anyways, as I previously mentioned, Wikipedia effectively migrated to Ubuntu LTS Servers. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/wikimedia Wikipedia is one of the high traffic sites on the Internet, run on a meager budget. Even with mind-blowing stats like 50,000 http requests/second and 80,000 SQL queries/second and millions of visitors, the entire setup of Wikimedia's 300+ servers is very much stable: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles Regards, Kumaraguru _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
