Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-12 23:38:35, schrieb Justin Hartman: Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server in a production environment

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-12-13 09:28:52, schrieb Ken Hu: Our company choose RedHat(before) and CentOS(now) as our main web server just because the availability of the hardware drivers. Usually we use IBM's PC servers with hardware raid and we can only get the driver of the raid controller card for RHEL . I

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 05:39:32PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Updating of RedHat/Fedora machines are the HELL. This is WHY I am dedicated Debian GNU/Linux Consultant. Actually, if you are fortunate enough to have a homogeneous environment (or mostly so), Red Hat can be handled very well

Re: Point missed. Was: Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:43:53AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: I guess you missed my point. The point is, the setup for the webserver stuff and the modules to be loaded by it... and the bind configuration and the configurations it uses. The split config setups in Exim and Apache and Bind

Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Hartman
Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server in a production environment. I have noticed that Red Hat, Suse, CentOS, Fedora

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/12/06, Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server in a production environment

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Raquel
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:38:35 +0200 Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:38 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: I have noticed that Red Hat, Suse, CentOS, Fedora, etc. appear to dominate the web server market as the backend powering most production servers and I'm wondering why Debian doesn't feature? I haven't seen any numbers on this for a

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Hartman
I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing more than 1 or 2 years ago). I'm sure I am and I was really making this statement based on my own perception more than any hard facts. I think what may be

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Justin Hartman writes: I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS but what makes them different to Debian? Marketing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:03:39 +0200 Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing more than 1 or 2 years ago).

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 00:03 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing more than 1 or 2 years ago). I'm sure I am and I was really making this statement based on my

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 23:38 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: I own two dedicated web servers and they run Red Hat and CentOS but what makes them different to Debian? I have done a lot of reading and research on Debian and my impression of, particularly stable is that it is one of the most

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:38:35PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Forgive me if I am posting this to the wrong list but I am not sure where this kind of a email would be posted to. That said, I am interested to find out people's perspective on running Debian stable as a web server

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 12:03:39AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Actually, we're working very hard to polish our next release (Etch) and i suggest you give it a try. Honestly I really want to give Debian a try as one of my production servers. I don't know how difficult it will be to migrate

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:01:01PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: cPanel and Plesk plus others have support for the stable versions of Debian (cPanel even still supports Woody, though that is changed shortly) There is also webmin, which keeps up quite nicely even with Sid, IIRC. Etch isn't

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Ken Hu
Our company choose RedHat(before) and CentOS(now) as our main web server just because the availability of the hardware drivers. Usually we use IBM's PC servers with hardware raid and we can only get the driver of the raid controller card for RHEL . If anyone can shed some light on me to let me

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 12/12/06, Justin Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure you're wrong. Debian was showed as #1 in the web servers that publishes the distribution info by Netcraft some time ago (nothing more than 1 or 2 years ago). I'm sure I am and I was really making this statement based on my own

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:54 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: cPanel and Plesk plus others have support for the stable versions of Debian (cPanel even still supports Woody, though that is changed shortly) There is also webmin, which keeps up quite nicely even with Sid, IIRC. Webmin is

Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:53:37PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:54 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: cPanel and Plesk plus others have support for the stable versions of Debian (cPanel even still supports Woody, though that is changed shortly) There is also

Point missed. Was: Re: Debian as a Web server

2006-12-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 21:00 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:53:37PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 18:54 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: cPanel and Plesk plus others have support for the stable versions of Debian (cPanel even still