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A mate and I are starting up a new project and what we need is:
1. A server
2. Remote Clients
Where we have the problem is the server distribution, we want one which:
- Is rock solid
- Not Debian based
- Can run a MySQL sever, from text based interface
- Is using minimum resources
- Support for zFS
- Remote developing on server enabling possible
- SSH access
- SFTP access
- Ruby installable
We have tried to use CentOS, but for US it crashes constantly.
Can anyone recommend a distro? don't care which one as longs as it is a *nix distro
I would have to agree with Chris, I've had no problems with CentOS serving millions of web pages and processing millions of $/£/€ of financial transactions per month.
From experience the vast majority of crashing issues end up in one of three categories.
Mis-configuration.
Developers writing bad applications.
Unsuitable hardware.
Common sense and adopting standard practises such as having fully separate development / testing / production environments and using suitable server hardware will mitigate most issues. Never, EVER do development on a production environment.
Servers that are more than fine for testing may not stand up to the loads required for production. While it's possible to develop a website on a single processor system with 1Gb of memory it won't necessarily work when the same server is required to do 50,000+ page displays per day (I know from experience, I've had that pain!)
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