[ILUG] Favourite flavours

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

> Now while I broady accept the argument that for hosting
> companies like blacknight, it is essential to be able to put
> up a production box in <= no time... the world is not a vax.. or
> rather a hosting company. 
> 
> If one has the time, and patience, I'd almost certainly
> recommend using something like gentoo, mostly because, I find
> portage to be a very polished packaging system, *but* that's
> just me. I have nothing against Red Hat boxes really, but,
> like I say, if you have the time and patience, you'll be hard
> pushed not to see better performance from a arch specific optimised
> box. 
Fine, however he asked specifically about setting up Apache and Tomcat for
hosting sites, so I really doubt he has the time to go messing about with
stuff. 
If he was doing something for his own personal pleasure then maybe
experimenting with gentoo might be a nice idea, however if he was working
for me and I found him wasting time with something unsuitable like gentoo
his job security would be at risk. 
My understanding of gentoo is that everything needs to be compiled. That
would make it unsuitable for hosting anything, as you would need to
recompile every time you needed to patch.
Needless to say if uptime isn't an issue then playing with this kind of
thing might seem like a good idea, though I wonder who would want to pay
somebody who didn't take uptime seriously.


Mr Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknight.ie/
Tel. +353 59 9137101