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AsylumN · 03-09-2005, 03:35 PM

What's the best operating system for a dedicated server that will be running at 3.4 ghz with 50 Mbps hosting paysites and the members areas of the paysites? Not a whole lot of scripting. FreeBSD Unix? Linux Redhat? Windows 2000?

megatgpdotnet · 03-09-2005, 03:42 PM

Go for FreeBSD or Linux.

XSV · 03-09-2005, 03:43 PM

We see better performance for heavy usage with FreeBSD.

AsylumN · 03-09-2005, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by megatgpdotnet

Go for FreeBSD or Linux.

Thanks for reply...is there any particular reason?

AsylumN · 03-09-2005, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by XSV

We see better performance for heavy usage with FreeBSD.

Ok, so 2 votes for FreeBSD so far.

tungsten · 03-09-2005, 03:45 PM

freebsd for sure, great stability

Furious_Female · 03-09-2005, 03:47 PM

Windows 2003 server

VideoJ · 03-09-2005, 04:29 PM

FreeBSD First,
Linux second,
wouldn't waste my time on windows for server applications. 2 reasons, first cost and second security.

Also think about it, both freebsd and linux have hundreds of programmers looking at the source code offering their improvments. Even microsoft can't match that.

BastarD · 03-09-2005, 04:30 PM

Debian power

s9ann0 · 03-09-2005, 04:48 PM

FreeBSD is best I reckon

mistress69 · 03-09-2005, 04:49 PM

freebsd won't you down. Solaris, redhat servers are all fine if you can secure it properly. Just don't go with a windows server

JFPdude · 03-09-2005, 04:51 PM

FreeBSD hands down.

Unless you are serving a lot of .wmv's then you may want to do windows treaming off a win2k3 machine.

UGH yes I'm a unix nerd and I said the w word. I'll go kick my own ass now.

boner 2.0 · 03-09-2005, 04:51 PM

FreeBSD. raw power

woj · 03-09-2005, 04:52 PM

freebsd

BoNgHiTtA · 03-09-2005, 04:57 PM

Now that RHE has the online channel subscriptions, you can keep it up2date with minimal efforts. I vote RHE

macho · 03-10-2005, 09:10 AM

FreeBSD!!!

Herb Kornfield · 03-10-2005, 09:20 AM

FreeBSD..... the only way to fly.

jukeboxfrank · 03-10-2005, 09:34 AM

If you have the bling win2003 server if not then some cheep ass free system.

Kevsh · 03-10-2005, 09:39 AM

I've heard over and over that FreeBSD is the still the best

FrankWhite · 03-10-2005, 09:40 AM

FreeBSD > *

loverboy · 03-10-2005, 10:07 AM

heard lots of good things about FreeBsd, hands down

beta-tester · 03-10-2005, 10:21 AM

FreeBSD is more stable than Linux...but it's hard to manage it...
So I would go for Linux...

PbG · 03-10-2005, 11:03 AM

FreeBSD or Linux ... we don't do windoze

Jace · 03-10-2005, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by jukeboxfrank

If you have the bling win2003 server if not then some cheep ass free system.

shit, ain't nothin cheap about those "free" systems....they are open source..which means unlike windows, there are hundreds if not thousands of people around the world that are functionally testing and making improvements to that "cheap" system on a daily basis....you CAN NOT beat proper open source products

i think anything with heavy traffic NEEDS to be on linux or freebsd, plain and simple...just my opinion though

TheSaint · 03-10-2005, 11:15 AM

For money making servers, almost always Red Hat Enterprise Linux for me.

Yes, freebsd is slightly faster, who gives a fuck. I care about uptime and ease of use.

With RHEL you get a vendor supported product that is updated extremely easily every day with a steady stream of the latest patches and kernels from Red Hat, all installed with one command, and ther are *many* *many* more products and services available for Linux.

You pay about $25 a month extra for RHEL, worth it a thousand times over for me.

Oh - Windows is just garbage. We spend more time trying to keep 5 windows servers running then I do about 50 Linux servers.

teksonline · 03-10-2005, 11:25 AM

There's simply no question here, FreeBSD makes a FAR SUPERIOR os for a web server.
And frankly, linux easier to freebsd, thats a false statement, i guess some fools got sold on that RPM garbage but its just that GARBAGE.

now that redhat is dead (now retail i guess).... youll see the king of webservers overtake the market as it once did.

Hooray!!!! More jobs for me

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davidd · 03-10-2005, 11:27 AM

FreeBSD for security and stability

Windows and Linux - for a server you want hacked on a weekly basis.

It is toss up as to which server is more insecure. I would say Windows gets hacked more, but when Linux fucks up the code tree, they fuck it up real good (kernel exploits, ping gets broken, they finally fixed the max 2GB file size limit, etc etc).

Do a google search for Linux Root Kit or Linux Exploit: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,150,000

Do a google search for FreeBSD exploit: 1 - 10 of about 264,000

The Linux code base is a free for all, with little or no supervision, whereas FreeBSD is maintained by the core group that approves and disapproves all tree changes and direction of the project.

This is based upon years of experience, not wild ass assumptions.

-dd

Prof.Dr. Den · 03-10-2005, 11:31 AM

free bsd all the way

tranza · 03-10-2005, 11:31 AM

It seems that FreeBSD won...

TheSaint · 03-10-2005, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tranza

It seems that FreeBSD won...

I wouldn't quite put it that way. The bsd people are like the christian right, just the loudest. All I can can is my dozens of corporate clients all use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, freebsd has almost zero penetration in the business world - every major vendor, ibm, hp, etc have all embraced red hat. Its rock solid and worth a few bucks a month.

Freebsd has has *major* security exploits too; people slectively remember things.

03-10-2005, 12:18 PM

freebsd 5.3 stable - it is our choice.

azguy · 03-10-2005, 12:21 PM

DOS-6.2-stable-release

nmcog · 03-10-2005, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheSaint

Yes, freebsd is slightly faster, who gives a fuck. I care about uptime and ease of use.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

Nothing beats FreeBSD's uptime and reliability for production servers.

Linux is a toy, always has been, always will be. It was designed as a hack by a geek, always will be that, a hack.

Cogitator · 03-10-2005, 12:21 PM

Gentoo. I know some ISPs that use it. Very good for image serving.

Tony Montana · 03-10-2005, 12:23 PM

I prefer windows 2003 with apache win 32 and mysql

kacy · 03-10-2005, 12:40 PM

FreeBSD all the way

azguy · 03-10-2005, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tony Montana

I prefer windows 2003 with apache win 32 and mysql

A disaster waiting to happen

IceMaster · 03-10-2005, 01:05 PM

Depending what you are looking , if you are looking for asp you must go with Windows but you will have to pay the license fee . If you are looking for free things , you must go with UNIX.

And remember that cpanel just works with some linux versions and windows is just unstable.

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davidd Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,076	FreeBSD for security and stability Windows and Linux - for a server you want hacked on a weekly basis. It is toss up as to which server is more insecure. I would say Windows gets hacked more, but when Linux fucks up the code tree, they fuck it up real good (kernel exploits, ping gets broken, they finally fixed the max 2GB file size limit, etc etc). Do a google search for Linux Root Kit or Linux Exploit: Results 1 - 10 of about 2,150,000 Do a google search for FreeBSD exploit: 1 - 10 of about 264,000 The Linux code base is a free for all, with little or no supervision, whereas FreeBSD is maintained by the core group that approves and disapproves all tree changes and direction of the project. This is based upon years of experience, not wild ass assumptions. -dd Last edited by davidd; 03-10-2005 at 11:29 AM..

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