I've always had extremely

Shaggy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:36:38 +0000

I've always had extremely good luck with BSD - specifically FreeBSD. I've been running it on development and production machines for about eight years now. The product, and documentation are excellent!

Cheers,
Shaggy.

Another Debian/Ubuntu vote

cmoyer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:12:26 +0000

Another Debian/Ubuntu vote here

I run different variations of Debian or Ubuntu simply for the apt-get command, which makes it so, soo, sooo easy to install new software. Considering I use Webmin/Virtualmin for a CP it isn't the only option out there. Other than that I have my mac set up to run php5, MySQL5 and Apache2 by installing through macports(the apt-get for mac).

I tried Fedora but the images were too big and kept getting corrupt on the download, so I forgot it.

Regardless of what others say Windows makes a terrible web server, I could never get it to work out.

Ubuntu/Debian makes a quite capable simple web/document server, however I have never tried it under a heavy load.

Ya, cPanel limits my choice

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:24:04 +0000

Ya, cPanel limits my choice to CentOS or RedHat. I prefer Ubuntu because the debian packages are better than RPMs in my opinion. I also have Ubuntu on my home server because that's what I have on my desktop, and it's easier to maintain them both when it's the same distro.

pr0gr4mm3r wrote: I use

greg — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:59:00 +0000

pr0gr4mm3r wrote:

I use CentOS on my commercial servers only because I have to.

So obviously you don't out of choice on your home one. Is there any particular reason for that, or just preference / what you got used to?

EDIT
I just found the forum link from Liam's Debian tutorial
http://www.webmaster-forums.net/server-management/apc-article-how-build-...

So I guess the answer to my question is simply the requirement of cpanel then..

Another vote for Debian or

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:50:46 +0000

Another vote for Debian or Ubuntu. I use CentOS on my commercial servers only because I have to. I use Ubuntu on my home server, and it has all the usuals, such as Apache, PHP, MySQL, Samba, FTP, etc.

After you setup a home server for web development, learning how to configure Samba would also be a plus, so you can use it as a file/backup server. I would also recommend installing Torrentflux so you can run torrents, even if you shutdown your desktop at night.

teammatt3 wrote: Sorry, I

greg — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:36:00 +0000

teammatt3 wrote:

Sorry, I couldn't resist on that first post :)

yeah, I've seen your cheekiness before, I knew what your game was

So going by what you say I will sway away from fed. And I do read lots of good things about Ubuntu and debian, mainly they are good for simplicity, although I have compiled kernels and setup installs years ago with gentoo, the hard way *groans

I might go for debian, as I do think Liam has a great knowledge of servers, I can follow his guide, rather than search for one and 'hope' it is accurate and trustable...cheers

It's not that I have anything particularly against windows, it's just that whenever I see server software and the scripting that runs specifically on win server, it comes with a cost.
Why pay when Linux and PHP is there. I've also read of problems with php on win servers, also read it isn't too bad, but again, why bother with even possible issues and headaches when with linux it simply works.

decibel.places wrote: I use

greg — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:30:48 +0000

decibel.places wrote:

I use xampplite as a local server on Windows - it has Apache, PHP, MySQL - I think you can configure it for mail.

There is another package called wampserver, about the same...

[edit - I just read the OP, the info below is probably irrelevant]

There are some links to "linux server software" on this Google search

I have used Ubuntu as a dual boot on my PC, but not sure if it is usable for a server.

I know that FreeBSD is popular server software, it is UNIX-like therefore like Linux...

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I tend to read the OP of a thread before answering.
Guess it's just me, I like to be topical, and, well, at least attempt to be helpful.

Thanks for the link to google search though, I never thought of doing that.
I guess I might try Ubuntu as you mentioned, as you say it's good, although maybe not for a server, which is, well, kinda what I wanted, hmm **scratches head

So, I'll just throw this out there as a random question in the hope someone might read it and answer...anyone recommend a decent LINUX OS (that's not Unix or Windows) to use as a home server OS?

Sorry, I couldn't resist on

teammatt3 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:28:41 +0000

Sorry, I couldn't resist on that first post

For my home server I use Ubuntu, and on my "real" web server, I run Fedora Core 6. I hate Fedora Core. I can never figure out where config files are located, it's hard to locate where startup scripts are and it's harder to find support for it on forums.

I love Ubuntu simply for the fact that all the config files are in /etc/ and all the startup scripts are in /etc/init.d. That just makes it soooo much easier to administer. So my vote goes toward Debian, or a variant like Ubuntu.

Jeeves has a good tutorial on how to get up and running with Deb.

I use xampplite as a local

decibel.places — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:45:49 +0000

I use xampplite as a local server on Windows - it has Apache, PHP, MySQL - I think you can configure it for mail.

There is another package called wampserver, about the same...

[edit - I just read the OP, the info below is probably irrelevant]

There are some links to "linux server software" on this Google search

I have used Ubuntu as a dual boot on my PC, but not sure if it is usable for a server.

I know that FreeBSD is popular server software, it is UNIX-like therefore like Linux...

Hmm, you should probably go

teammatt3 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:32:00 +0000

Hmm, you should probably go with Windows.