FreeBSD or centos ?

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Posted by ttgt, 04-07-2011, 09:48 PM
Hi, for hosting market, i find many people use centos, do you use which one ? which one is better ? thanx
Posted by net, 04-07-2011, 09:53 PM
It depends on where you are convenient to work with. I prefer CentOs as it is stable.
Posted by Squidix - SamBarrow, 04-07-2011, 09:57 PM
Personally, I like FreeBSD better, in my experience it's more stable and lightweight. However for the standard cPanel/DA hosting platform, my choice would have to be CentOS due to compatibility issues.
Posted by Question Everything, 04-07-2011, 10:14 PM
Neither, Debian.
Posted by Squidix - SamBarrow, 04-07-2011, 11:11 PM
With cPanel you can't use Debian.
Posted by ServerManagement, 04-07-2011, 11:46 PM
I'd recommend CentOS, but it really depends on what else you are doing and running on the server. CentOS is also much more common for webhosts that use control panels like Cpanel.
Posted by GCM, 04-08-2011, 01:04 AM
CentOS hands down, although Ubuntu is another good alternative.
Posted by Patrick, 04-08-2011, 10:50 AM
Just throwing this out here but historically the number of root exploits in the kernel for FreeBSD is much, much, much less than Linux. However, if you plan on using cPanel keep in mind that eventually far down the road they will phase out FreeBSD support and you'll have to switch over to something else... sigh! In my opinion, FreeBSD handles large volumes of traffic better than Linux... there's a reason most of the DDOS protection providers started off with FreeBSD/NetBSD boxes for filtering. Hotmail also used FreeBSD prior to Microsoft taking it over and Yahoo! also used FreeBSD heavily. I won't turn this into a Linux/FreeBSD debate, but if you've never used both and probably need a lot of hand holding then go with CentOS simply because the community is larger and probably friendlier.
Posted by bluemer, 04-08-2011, 11:00 AM
I love FreeBSD! I say FreeBSD.. You can always use DirectAdmin on FreeBSD!