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What are you using on your servers anons? Which is in your opinion the best for a productive maschine?
ubuntu vs. debian vs. centos vs. arch
>>51269542
Windows Server
I use Debian on my primary server (web, irc, ftp, ssh, git, seedbox, etc.) but I use OpenBSD for my mail server.
>>51269542
I use arch with SELinux kernel on my main server. It hosts a Rails server and a ftp. Also a virtualized arch inside that hosts ssh so I can have a unix system ready whenever I need one
i use centos for webserver
>>51269542
Do you need Apache?: Redhat/Fedora or FreeBSD
No?: OpenBSD
Do you need bleeding edge features to go with Apache?: Redhat/Fedora
No?: FreeBSD
CentOS on my main server, FreeBSD on my storage server.
>>51269542
Debian on most of my servers. With the exception being for my current fileserver which runs Freenas
2012r2 underneath the barebones hyper-v
>>51269542
Debian 8.2 64bit on our webservers.
>>51269542
Proxmox VE as hypervisors. It's great.
>>51270144
OpenBSD has Apache 2 in ports/packages, brosef. FreeBSD is basically "I want containers but hate Docker, LXC, and Zones", since Linux has ZFS now.
I've always used Debian and it works fine for all of my needs. I'd love to test every distro mentioned in this thread though. If only I had unlimited free time.
Debian 7 on all my servers, Debian 8 on laptop and desktop :) you could say I'm a purist
>>51272421
Debian 8 is great for servers too. Systemd makes it really easy to turn non-forking processes into system services rather than fucking running them in screen or tmux. Think of qwebirc, rtorrent, etc.
esxi which has about 20 vm's running, mostly server 2012
>>51272560
ESXi is terrible and I wish VMware would die in a nuclear fire. I'd love to replace our deployment with openstack or smartos+smartdatacenter.
>server
>arch
Lulz
>>51272606
esxi works great, we are hosting almost 2,000 machines on it at work. i use the regular fat client to interact with it though since i am not a fan of the dumb web client
>>51272703
It sucks huge syphilitic wangs for multi-tenant. vCloud Director in particular is a goddamn abortion.
>>51269578
This. Same for all. Debian is no contest saves time to do all the shit you need to do & mail server on bsd cuz shit gets attacked 24/7
>>51270144
Apache is fucking garbage. Use nginx or kill yourself
>>51269542
>rackmount server cases with non-hotswap drive bays
These are so fucking dumb. If you're paying for a server rack and staff to maintain your gear, pay a little more money so you don't have to unplug and remove an entire server just to switch a fucking drive out. The Supermicro SC512 chassis in particular is terrible.
>>51269575
This.
LOL @ freetard plebs
>>51273267
To be fair, if you have things set up properly you don't need to shut down the server to pull it forward and open the top.
>>51269542
>Which is in your opinion the best for a productive maschine?
Windows
>>51273595
A lot of things dont support cable arms, and plenty of things dont come with rails either; Cisco for example.
>>51273670
GUI is shit. There's a reason even micro shaft doesn't use Wang blows for their servers
CentOS on local home server, Ubuntu LTS on Mail Server (remote vps), Ubuntu 15.04 on Seedbox (remote)
I host WordPress sites on Ubuntu Server 15.04 with Amazon EC2 currently, mainly out of ease of use. MySQL/Apache are necessary.
Can anyone recommend a lighter, or generally more beneficial distribution?
>/g/
>2015
>no gentoo
leddit here i come
Ubuntu because it werks.
Fuck all that overblown cheap crap from the last century like CentOS
>>51275804
Honestly we've had about 7 years of that meme, its had its day by now
Time for new meems to rise up
>>51269542
debian. it just werks. no problems of any kind, ever.
>>51269542
At work :
- Debian for web servers
- Centos for application servers; or Windows if the application cannot run on GNU/Linux
- pfSense for firewalls/vpns
- VMWare for visualization
- Windows 7 or MacOS for laptops because 80% of my coworkers including my boss would go muh ms office, muh linux is difficult, muh habits.
>>51276552
fire up the meme factory baka desu senpai
>>51273670
what is that server used for?
>>51276740
it's obviously a hypervisor
SLES
>>51269542
2 dedicated Debian Blades (game servers, Web servers, mining). Another Proxmox box with Debian and Arch.
>>51269542
Mac Mini running El Cap for my home server, handles backup and Plex, has an attached 8tb Thunderbolt RAID with WD Red drives. Works for me
>>51269542
My environment has 2 Windows Server boxes, 2 FreeBSD boxes, and a Fedora Server box.
>>51276768
>SLES
I've used RHEL for quite some time, now running RHEL / Debian / Gentoo virtual machines from 1 server all doing gods work.
Hello, the other day I received a rack-mountable NAS from work for free. Out of interest I was wondering how much I could sell it for - how much would you pay for it personally?
Off the top of my head I can't remember the model however it has 4 x 3TB Seagate Barracuda drives and uses 2GB DDR2 (not the latest of things) I can't imagine it would be worth less than £400 for the drives and actual hardware itself, could I push £500?
It is a Buffalo Terastation of some kind.
I also have two HP ProCurve 1800 24Gs lying around. £75 each?
I most likely won't sell them but if they're worth any more than I think then I may do to put towards building my own.
>>51277031
Whoops, mistook this for a Home Server general type thread, sorry.
>>51269542
At home Gentoo.
At work Debian for virtualization, web services, database backends, code repositories, FreeBSD for storage because lolZFS. And a couple of PFsenses.
>>51269542
FreeBSD on server and access point, OpenBSD on router.
I use Debian.
Solid.
Fedora server
>>51269542
>centos
disqualified: RHEL point release gaps. meaning 1-2 months w/o updates
>arch
disqualified: arch's main server runs debian
>>51269542
Winblows Small Business (read: penis)
> because it just werks
because I use it for real work
I use Debian just because I dont want to learn how to setup another OS, even if the differences are minimal. So far, it hasnt dissapointed me. Long live to Debian.
>>51273797
i hope you don't believe that.
>>51278772
It used to be true. Hotmail ran on FreeBSD until Server 2008 came out.
Debian
rhel
FreeNAS
I'm thinking of setting up a server. Started a thread but no replies yet...
What are some things I could use a server at my home for?
>>51278897
Sticking it into your asshole.
Best OS for a mediaserver that will see intermittent/all-day usage?
>>51278996
either debian (the easiest way) or centos
>>51279034
Debian is really more user friendly than stuff like FreeNAS, or OpenFileVault?
>>51279064
I said debian because it's
>stable with nonfrequent updates
>has large user base so there will be step by step tutorials how to do what
>has large repositories so you won't be hunting for packages and compiling all day
>>51279064
Debian, it's an install and forget OS.
Do you like stability and stuff not breaking? Debian.
>>51279095
>>51279143
Breddy gud anons. Will be looking into the tutorials.
What virtualization software is the best esxi or ??
Windows 8.1 industrial pro on htpc/server
>>51278918
Great idea!
>>51279191
Just use Linux. The built in type 1 hypervisor (KVM) and tools (libvirt, virsh, virt-manager) are great. If you want a fire and forget hypervisor with ZFS and a web interface use Proxmox.
>>51278897
HTPC+NAS pair. Put all kinds of stuff on the NAS like deluged+deluge-web for torrents, sickbeard for Usenet, an FTP client, etc., as well as NFS or Samba. The HTPC should run Kodi, formerly known as XBMC.
I don't believe any of you have a personal server in your own home. That is just not believable.
If I want to take an image of my server OS after installing it, so that I can just drop it in if I fuck it up, is there a quick way to do this?
What tool should I use?
Does gparted do this?
>>51269542
If you use anything but centos or RH you're an idiot.
Debian
>>51276699
Are you me? This is pretty much my office.
So what firewall(hardware) would be an ok for light/medium server usage looking to host teamspeak server/irc and gameserver maybe even my website.
>>51284087
I think it's a fairly common setup. My workplace is more or less the same though we're on win8.1 and the majority of the L2 and higher resources are issued a mac for no other reason than the owner having a hard on for apple (he's not daft enough to actually suggest osx server though).
>>51269575
>>51273287
just kill yourselves already you winkeks
>>51280800
clonezilla bruh
brotip, just cloning the clean/tweaked install won't let you recover files in case of a fuckup, just restore the os, so if you want files too, then completely set it up with everything before you clone it and make sure you have a hdd large enough to clone to
>>51272693
>implying arch doesn't have an lts kernal
>>51284345
Brilliant, thanks. It's only a 30gb cheap ass hdd I need to clone anyway so it's fine.
>debian workstations, web application servers (django+uwsgi+nginx), hypervisors (xen)
>freebsd db servers (postgres), network infrastructure servers (dns, dhcp, radius,pf), backup+centralized logging servers (zfs), assorted other stuff like mail, monitoring (nagios, tenshi, symon)
