[PHP] Best Server OS
I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Gracias, Phil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Tough question to ask best is usually what the beholder likes best. I will say this: I prefer Red Hat or Fedora Linux. -- -Dan Joseph Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for the rest of the day. Light a man on fire, and will be warm for the rest of his life. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
Phil Neeb wrote: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Let the war begin! ;) FWIW : I prefer Linux, Red Hat flavor. Why? Only because I've used it since RH 5.2. -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
Hello Phil, On Monday 28 March 2005 22:19, Phil Neeb wrote: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. i would prefer Gentoo Linux ( http://gentoo.org/ ) because it is very up to date. There are install scripts (ebuilds) for PHP until 5.0.3 and the installation makes no problems at all. If you are not much into Linux i would prefer Fedora Core Linux ( http://fedora.redhat.com/ ), the problem is, that you must compile much software by hand if you want very new versions and Fedory is not that freaky then Gentoo. By the way Fedory is very easy to install and it runs very very stable. If you need a hardcore develpment plattform read the docs on the Gentoo website and you are on the right way. Another OS which is very easy to install is FreeBSD. I know a hoster which runs this system on nearly every Mashine. I don't know much about FreeBSD but i have installed some day in the past and it wasn't much painfull. Hope this helps... Regards -- # Johannes Findeisen -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:19 -0500, Phil Neeb wrote: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Slackware. Dan. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Best Server OS
[snip] I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. [/snip] BSD, hands down. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Best Server OS
I personally like OpenBSD - though many of the BSDs are similar at many tasks and only have notable differences in a few areas (and it's those areas you should look to find which works best for you). I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) -Original Message- From: Phil Neeb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:19 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Best Server OS I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Gracias, Phil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Best Server OS
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:58 -0500, Mike wrote: I personally like OpenBSD - though many of the BSDs are similar at many tasks and only have notable differences in a few areas (and it's those areas you should look to find which works best for you). I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) Screw Windows, how about OS/2 :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
I prefer Debian 3.1 .. Everyones taste is quite different, so I suggest to install some test-installations of those different OS - and you have the choice. Christian Phil Neeb schrieb: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Gracias, Phil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
Phil Neeb wrote: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Gracias, Phil Being an old RedHatter.. Since 5.1.. I like RedHat flavors. If you want MySQL 3 versions, CentOS EL 3.4 is a free Redhat Enterprise Linux clone. For MySQL 4.x... CentOS EL 4 is out. Also has selinux if you want to take that on. All quality stuff that you can rely on in a mission critical environment. John Hinton -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Best Server OS
Danny Brow wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:58 -0500, Mike wrote: I personally like OpenBSD - though many of the BSDs are similar at many tasks and only have notable differences in a few areas (and it's those areas you should look to find which works best for you). I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) Screw Windows, how about OS/2 :) screw that too. Unix-based systems are the way to go here. From what I've seen, those are the systems that are: a) most used b) run smoothest c) are simplest to install / manage from a distance d) are most up-to-date at all times Personally I'd suggest using either Fedora (RH), or Debian. But that's just my personal opinion ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Hi John, since I have CentOS 3.4 and just wanted to update MySQL to version 4, your comment surprised me :). Can you give some more info about that? Thanks! -afan John Hinton wrote: Phil Neeb wrote: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. Gracias, Phil Being an old RedHatter.. Since 5.1.. I like RedHat flavors. If you want MySQL 3 versions, CentOS EL 3.4 is a free Redhat Enterprise Linux clone. For MySQL 4.x... CentOS EL 4 is out. Also has selinux if you want to take that on. All quality stuff that you can rely on in a mission critical environment. John Hinton -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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I will! Ok, not completely. I'm an avid windows user, but not a blind Gates disciple.. please don't accuse me of that. I will never say that a Windows server is the 'best' platform for doing PHP script serving because I don't believe that's the case. It DOES work, but it's far from the 'best'. If it was one of the 'best' then Zend would never have created Zend WinEnabler to ...bring PHP on Windows up to par with PHP on Linux... (http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-win-enabler.php if you're curious) And for $500, I'd say that Linux of any flavor is definitely a winner over Windows just for that reason. BUT... when it comes to picking an OS for your server, it's VERY important to ask yourself a few key things. Probably the biggest in my book would be who is going to be maintaining this server and how easy would it be to find another person if you had to. PHP hosted on BeOS might be the absolute best in performance, but if you're hard pressed to find another BeOS admin if your chosen admin dies, quits, gets fired, etc then it's not worth going that route. This choice affects pretty much everything else. Downtime, deployment time, security, etc. If you have a bunch of Windows admins and you insist that they install Linux and put up an Apahce/PHP setup, there's probably going to be some learning time, potential problems, misconfigurations, frustrations, random downtimes when problems come up and solutions have to be researched from scratch, etc. If you already have an established Windows server based network, don't be afraid to set up PHP. It may not be the best, but you'll have fewer long-term problems I believe. If you're starting from scratch all around.. either admin'ing it yourself or havn't hired the admin.. or your admin knows nothing about computers to start with and will be learning everything from step 1 anyway, then definitely go linux. Red hat is very popular, as well as many of the BSDs. As much as I like Windows AND Linux, all practicality says go with whatever you have established and keep your network simple. Even if you have a Windows network and a Windows admin who's also proficient in Linux, think of what you'd have to do to replace that person someday. You'd end up having to find another Windows+Linux admin or get a Linux admin and possibly a separate Windows person. Personally I like dealing with MS SQL Server better than MySQL by a LONG shot, but PHP best ASP/ASP.Net handsdown. So my last job where I worked with PHP under Windows Server 2003 interfacing (via ADODB) with SQL Server and Oracle was great. I didn't have any problems with PHP running under Windows. But it also wasn't a mission critical or high volume setup. Results may vary. -TG = = = Original message = = = I personally like OpenBSD - though many of the BSDs are similar at many tasks and only have notable differences in a few areas (and it's those areas you should look to find which works best for you). I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 23:28 +0200, M. Sokolewicz wrote: Danny Brow wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:58 -0500, Mike wrote: I personally like OpenBSD - though many of the BSDs are similar at many tasks and only have notable differences in a few areas (and it's those areas you should look to find which works best for you). I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) Screw Windows, how about OS/2 :) screw that too. Unix-based systems are the way to go here. From what I've seen, those are the systems that are: a) most used b) run smoothest c) are simplest to install / manage from a distance d) are most up-to-date at all times Personally I'd suggest using either Fedora (RH), or Debian. But that's just my personal opinion ;) I was kidding about OS/2, it's a dead OS. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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Danny Brow wrote: ... I wonder who will get bored and stir up the ants nest and say Windows? ;) Windoze is da shizzle my nizzle! Every1 knoz the kewlest SkRiPtErS use Windoze! ... I was kidding about OS/2, it's a dead OS. Nuh uh, just tell that to my overclocked 286 with 4MB of RAM! . . . . . . -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalw=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHPsubmitform=Find+search+plugins signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: [PHP] Best Server OS
Phil Neeb mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Monday, March 28, 2005 12:19 PM said: I'm lookin for some opinions on this one ... What do you think the best OS is for running a server with PHP and MySQL? If you're going to say Linux, please, which Linux OS, there are so many. I will throw my vote in for some flavor of Red Hat. Beit the older version(s) 8 or 9, or the later Fedora Core 1, 2, or 3. I just got FC3 installed yesterday (Gnome gave me lots of trouble so I reinstalled for a 3rd time without the GUI, still has a basic X11 GUI though). Runs much better now. Never tried Xfce though. That might have worked fine. Anyway... Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
