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What distro do you use on your VPS? Why?

vahevahe Member
edited August 2012 in General

I started off with CentOS 5, then 6, then moved to Debian Squeeze, which is running on all of my boxes now, except one. Just wondering what distro (template) do you use on your vps.

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  • TheHackBoxTheHackBox Member
    edited August 2012

    I use CentOS on my KVM because I wanted to try it. I use Debian on the rest because it has been extremely stable and I use ubuntu 12.04 on my VPS in France because it's awesome. I also used to use Arch Linux and Gentoo.

  • flyfly Member
    edited August 2012

    12.04 isn't bad. i just wish they would use sysvinit or even systemd instead of voodoo and broken upstart

    i'm an archlinux guy but i put debian 6 / ubuntu 12.04 on the "production" vps's

  • CentOS 5x because of Kloxo. :S

  • I was a RedHat/CentOS guy for more than 15 years, now my distro of choice is Debian. The move was prompted primarily by CentOS's inability to allow major version upgrades. I still have a mailserver on CentOS 5 and it's rock-solid, but it'll move to Debian before CentOS 5 goes end-of-life.

    For a box with less than 128MB memory, Debian Just Works (tm).

  • I use Debian because it just runs.

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  • @gsrdgrdghd said: I use Debian because it just runs.

    Hey, that's dangerous close to a trademark infringement :)

  • Debian 6 (Squeeze) 32Bit. I was a redhat/centos fan, simplistic "yum" and lots of guide, easy use. But debian is similar, less of a memory overhead, most packages already in the sources list.

    Can't think of another distro i'd rather use. It's added to pretty much every provider's list of templates.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    I tend to use CentOS mostly, even on production servers.

  • CentOS 6 on everything except my backup storage VPS.

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on everything

  • Debian 6 on everything. Relatively less memory overhead, awesome repos, all the previously stated reasons.

  • cPanel use Centos or CloudLinux if you count as distro, i know im lazy :)

  • Debian 6, because I'm familiar with it and because it works.

  • gbshousegbshouse Member, Host Rep

    +1 12.04 LTS

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  • vahevahe Member

    Wow, I didn't expect so many 12.04 users... How does it compare to bare debian?

  • Debian 6, it fits the especific purpose of my VPS.

  • bamnbamn Member

    CentOS latest running Centminmod for Wordpress / forums, personal use and clients, because it installs MariaDB, nginx and other stuff so easily

    Debian for my personal servers

  • edited August 2012

    Now I use Debian 6 32bit + Minstall.

    And using this kind of line in my nginx configuration :

    server {
        server_name 384mb.com;
        rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.384mb.com/$1 permanent;
    }
    
    server {
        server_name www.384mb.com;
        listen   80;
        listen   [::]:80;
    
        root /home/http/hosts/384mb.com;
        error_log /home/http/logs/384mb.com.log;
        index index.html index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/cache.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/deny.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/php.d/384mb.conf;
    }
    
    

    The following code will enable IPv6 access to the website, just if anyone want to use IPv6 :

        listen   80;
        listen   [::]:80;
    

    And the following line will enable pretty permalinks in Wordpress :

        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    
  • krokro Member

    Centos 5 +compile shit to bring up to date

  • FreeBSD whenever I can (ie all except OpenVZ) and for OpenVZ, Debian.

  • CentOS 6 (more familiar with it); or, as of a day or two ago, Debian on LEBs with less than 256MB RAM.

  • ShamliShamli Member
    edited August 2012

    Debian 6 on all my VPS...it's easy to run,update,upgrade....

  • but debian 6 life will end in 2 years right?

  • @jcaleb so what? We will just dist-upgrade to debian7 then.

    Thanked by 2bamn tux
  • @rds100 said: @jcaleb so what? We will just dist-upgrade to debian7 then.

    is that easy?

  • @jcaleb said: is that easy?

    Yeah. Change sources.list, do a dist-upgrade, call it a day.

  • @ihatetonyy said: Yeah. Change sources.list, do a dist-upgrade, call it a day.

    Thanks! I will PM you when debian 7 is out!

  • jcaleb you change your deb sourna.link.loaalal squeeze security to deb sourna.link.loaalal wheezy security ;']

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  • gbshousegbshouse Member, Host Rep

    @vahe - 12.04 is more up-to-date with packages that Debian 6 for example mono-runtime or pdns-server

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