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Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

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question by Srirangan | Moderate

Hello

We're planning to setup a web server on a new box, basically to locally serve all our websites and web applications. We intend to run Apache, an FTP server, mail server and mySQL or SQLite.

Which distribution of Linux OS is best suited for our needs? Thanks!

- Srirangan

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by Bejaan

I'ld personally recommend Debian but you might want to have a look at Linux Distributions Guide by Rod Smith. Here's the link:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by Srirangan

Thanks for the link Bejaan.

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by Tejas

Fedora is very user friendly. Will be good for you if you aren't much experienced in linux in general.

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

answer by mastercomputers

I can't tell you which distribution is most suited, but you've summed up what's important to have which is Apache, MySQL/SQLite, FTP (vsftpd is my recommendation) and mail.

I've been using Fedora for web/ftp/ssh/mail server which is suitable for websites and web application development, but the majority of Linux distrobutions are suited for these tasks too, it just comes down to what you choose and how far you are willing to learn it. I've been using Red Hat/Fedora for a long time and have stuck with them as my preferred distribution.

Configuring it is not a hard task, I've written many guides on Server Setups for Fedora and continuosly help those with their own setups. With helping people, it also shows where I need to fix my guides so that it would benefit more readers.

You can find out more about Fedora from their website:

http://fedora.redhat.com/

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by Abhishek Chatterjee

Do consider FreeBSD Unix... Unix still rules in most of the core server operations

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by rony358

If you want linux(not unix),i think fedora or redhat enterprise are the best options you have.

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Re: Which distribution of Linux is most suited for a web server?

reply by Srirangan

I eventually chose Zenwalk, which is a minimalized version of Slackware. Thanks all!

- Srirangan

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