[nylug-talk] Looking for recommendations on Linux Distro for high traffic web server and remote access client/server

[Rodrick Brown]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Steve Eisenberg
<steve.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> All:
>
>  I'm fairly new to the list and was wondering if a few folks  can offer some
>  advice. I am looking to move my web hosting to another linux based service
>  and want to know which version of Linux is best for running 20 to 30 web
>  sites, along with an ad server, email, and other web apps on one box. Many
>  people have suggested CENT OS, but want to be sure I'm making the right
>  choice. Would anyone care to comment?
>
>  Also, is there a better GUI utility out there than Putty for the novice
>  Linux user  who is not familiar with all of the commands used with a tool
>  such as putty?
>
>  Many thanks,
>  Steve Eisenberg
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If you're an enterprise company today running Linux you will want to
use Suse, RHEL, or CentOS. The fact is most ISV's will only support
their product on these platforms also If you ever need support Suse,
Redhat and its clone CentOS is the only viable option these days. You
will not regret going with CentOS or RHEL.

That being said  my firm is using a mixture of RHEL5 and CentOS 5.1
distro's on Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers for a high volume low latency
electronic trading network.

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Rodrick R. Brown
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