[Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
- From: gurukumara@xxxxxxxxx (Kumara Guru)
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:32:01 +0530
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
Unless you have talked to *anyone* handling a large deployment, ?all you
can do is speculate about their needs which isn't useful. ?Not many
people will explain the specifics for you in a public mailing list.
Deployment use cases and requirements are often treated as confidential.
Yeah, since when did the Enterprise looked to public mailing lists for
answers and shared plans of their deployments? Glad, you put the
public mailing list in its place. Yet, when the OP was looking for a
LAMP setup, it was immediately assumed he is an Enterprise guy and
there was a completely unjustified suggestion "Don't touch (even think
about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server platform for new production
apps". How is this useful?
Make no mistake, I have nothing against RHEL/CentOS but you cannot
trivialize another distro like Ubuntu just like that, or argue that a
completely arbitrary N-years support cycle is the clincher without
considering the specific internals of the organization itself. If
tomorrow, RHEL or Ubuntu provided 20 years extended support for every
release, will it be any more useful?
Anyways, as I previously mentioned, Wikipedia effectively migrated to
Ubuntu LTS Servers.
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/wikimedia
Wikipedia is one of the high traffic sites on the Internet, run on a
meager budget. Even with mind-blowing stats like 50,000 http
requests/second and 80,000 SQL queries/second and millions of
visitors, the entire setup of Wikimedia's 300+ servers is very much
stable:
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles
Regards,
Kumaraguru
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