Posted by Torgny Bjers on 08/15/05 10:31

Sebastian wrote:

> I will be building a new server and wondering what would be a good
> choice for php/mysql/apache other than redhat.
>
> I was thinking either Debian or CentOS. can anyone share their
> thoughts on them for php environment?
>
> does anyone use them on high traffic php sites? or is there not a
> difference in what distro you run php on?
>
> sorry these may sound like stupid questions but i mostly used redhat
> since i started using php and thought i'd try something different


I can recommend CentOS. We've been running it for some time now on
several of our hosting machines with Plesk setups. But, as far as that
goes, it doesn't make a lick of difference if you're running Debian,
CentOS, or another flavor, as long as you've got a 2.6 kernel and a
decently optimized setup for your PHP sites. The 2.6 kernel makes a lot
of difference when it comes to scaling Apache. With the 2.4 kernel our
Apache 2.0 was somewhat sensitive to DOS attacks, mostly on the memory
side, but with 2.6 and grsec it runs like a dream.

Regards,
Torgny

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