What web hosting uses for websites?

[Kyle]

i'm thinking about getting a new server for myself and what i am looking into is http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition so i can host my VA. What you guys use out there?

[Tom]

I don't really see a benefit of a Linux server for an airline to be honest. All you would really be able to do is host your site there, so you might as well just have hosting.

If you want to get a server you can actually use (FSHost, 24/7 Gamespy) you'll need a windows server.. and that's big money.

[Kyle]

I don't really see a benefit of a Linux server for an airline to be honest. All you would really be able to do is host your site there, so you might as well just have hosting.

If you want to get a server you can actually use (FSHost, 24/7 Gamespy) you'll need a windows server.. and that's big money.

I know, i'm just getting sick of site5 right now, and i want something that is my owns. but thanks tom!

[Tom]

Well.. you must have more money than sense

[Nabeel]

I don't really see a benefit of a Linux server for an airline to be honest. All you would really be able to do is host your site there, so you might as well just have hosting.

If you want to get a server you can actually use (FSHost, 24/7 Gamespy) you'll need a windows server.. and that's big money.

For website hosting, you def should be running a Linux server. Right now the phpVMS site is running using Ubuntu 9.10, and the fivedev server on CentOS 5 (the OS version of RedHat). They're *much* easier to manage than Windows servers, and much less crashy and aggravating (I manage two Windows servers at work for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and they're such a pain, all of our Linux servers are uptimes upwards of years). If you have specific applications which need Windows, which is why we have two Windows servers, they're running TTS processing, then I guess it's ok. For anything else, Linux all the way. Especially Ubuntu - you can have an entire server ready to go in about 10 minutes, with all the installs being finished just by doing:

apt-get install apache php5-common php5-cgi php5-cli mysql

Then just setup the configs... of course there's more to it than that, but for instance now, this Ubuntu server phpVMS is running on is about 500mb of RAM, with only 150 going to the system... you couldn't do that with Windows, especially with the kind of traffic I get.

And like Tom said - Windows servers aren't cheap. Because they require maintenance, and also licensing costs. But mainly because they require more effort to maintain.

Sick of site5? Come to fivedev

[Kyle]

For website hosting, you def should be running a Linux server. Right now the phpVMS site is running using Ubuntu 9.10, and the fivedev server on CentOS 5 (the OS version of RedHat). They're *much* easier to manage than Windows servers, and much less crashy and aggravating (I manage two Windows servers at work for Windows Server 2003 and 2008 and they're such a pain, all of our Linux servers are uptimes upwards of years). If you have specific applications which need Windows, which is why we have two Windows servers, they're running TTS processing, then I guess it's ok. For anything else, Linux all the way. Especially Ubuntu - you can have an entire server ready to go in about 10 minutes, with all the installs being finished just by doing:

apt-get install apache php5-common php5-cgi php5-cli mysql

Then just setup the configs... of course there's more to it than that, but for instance now, this Ubuntu server phpVMS is running on is about 500mb of RAM, with only 150 going to the system... you couldn't do that with Windows, especially with the kind of traffic I get.

And like Tom said - Windows servers aren't cheap. Because they require maintenance, and also licensing costs. But mainly because they require more effort to maintain.

Sick of site5? Come to fivedev

Will consider fivedev Nabeel! I will check it out.

[TennShadow]

Will consider fivedev Nabeel! I will check it out.

I'm on Fivedev right now and it is super fast! No regrets here!