Re: Selecting OS for High-availability/mission-critical web portal

Glad you mentioned Solaris Mario.  I was holding back since this is a
linux list.

But i agree..  if Linux is not a must.. i would strongly recommend
solaris 10 on a nice AMD opteron box.

And if you went that direction..   go with a multi-cpu and/or multi-core
and configure Solaris zones to isolate the different applications
running on the server.  Or at least two zones..  your main global zone..
and a zone for all applications..

Mario A. Spinthiras wrote:

>If linux was a must then I would personally use Debian. It comes ready
>with some HA support from the linux-ha project. 
>
>If you can have a flexible choice id say solaris without second thought.
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>
>Mario. A. Spinthiras
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>On Behalf Of Ronald MacDonald
>Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:08 PM
>To: Mohammad Halawah
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Selecting OS for High-availability/mission-critical web
>portal
>
>Hi Mohammad,
>
>Not meaning to turn this into a "my distro's better than yours"
>thread, but for stability and security, I'd recommend having a serious
>look at Debian. It's easily stripped down to its most essential
>components for a nice small footprint and is easy to keep up to date
>with the apt system. As for performance, I suppose every
>implementation of a distro varies, but I'd it's is pretty adequate.
>
>In terms of hardening the OS, there's obviously a few ways to go about
>it. The most foolproof way is just "don't do anything stupid" - don't
>run any services you don't need, don't bother with gimmicky
>applications, just leave it all at the bare minimum. Also, there's a
>lot of good reading out there (more so with linux) as regards to
>hardening the OS. Incidentally, Bastille springs to mind - it's a good
>starting point to hardening your system.
>
>Regards,
>Ronald.
>
>  
>

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