In article <1182809615.193109.148990@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Darth Chaos <DarthChaosofRSPW@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy, my friend Kirsty in the UK runs a website, and she is looking
> into having it run from a Linux-based server. I recommended Ubuntu
> Server Edition followed by Fedora Core because I have no experience
> with the other OSes she mentioned (CentOS, Debian Stable, FreeBSD,
> OpenBSD, NetBSD), but I'm not sure which version of Ubuntu Server to
> recommend, Ubuntu Server Edition 6.06 LTS or Ubuntu Server Edition
> 7.04.
What do you mean by "run a website"? Do you mean place a server she
owns in a colo facility, where she will run the server? Or do you mean
a dedicated server from a hosting company, where the hosting company
handles the normal running of the server and she would just deal with
the website itself? Or will it be a website on shared hosting?
For all but the first of those, the answer is it doesn't really matter
much. You'd generally pick a hosting company based on price, bandwidth,
disk space, management tools, support, etc. What underlying Unix-like
system they use to provide that is usually not relevant.
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--Tim Smith
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