[TYPO3-debian] Most stable OS

[Kari Salovaara]

Nagita Karunaratne wrote:
> This may be a bad questions but ...
> 
> What is the most stable OS for TYPO3?
> What is the most efficient (ie. most responsive) for TYPO3?
> 
> I am setting up a dedicated server and I have a choice of the recent
> stable versions of
> 
> 1) Redhat Enterprise
> 2) FreeBSD
> 3) CentOS
> 4) Debian
> 
> It will be managed by a server management company.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nagita

In Your question two of the choices are actually the same 1) and 3), as 
Centos is free variant of the RHEL. You can get comprehensive support by 
using Centos mailing lists.
If You want to make stable server for Typo3 (and possible for other 
applications) I would like to recommend You to use Centos.
I've been using Centos (and also Tao which is actually also RHEL clone) 
for years. Updating and upgrading has been easy and these distros are 
for professional use, which means that updating is quaranteed for future 
(which is not so obvious wiht other distros You mentioned). Tao is going 
to be merged into CentOS during this summer, so look at 
http://www.centos.org .

I've been using for our servers these RHEL clones for years without any 
major problems, I've even at home desktop running CentOS (of course some 
modifications for my personal needs). In our servers we have tens of 
domains made with Typo3.
CentOS distros are easily managed with Webmin ( http://www.webmin.com ).

To get more information of various Linux distros, please look at 
http://distrowatch.com/

And one note of the response of http server; it depends mostly of Your 
hardware, processor and memory. It depends also how You setup Your 
server programs and for last of course of Your line capacity. How Typo3 
responds doesn't depend of which distro You have but these three main 
prerequisites.

Best regards and luck with Your choice,
Kari

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Kari Salovaara
Hanko, Finland