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Non-Red Hat Linux Hosting?
An anonymous reader asks: "Well, my web host is down again, so I thought I'd ask the Slashdot faithful if they can recommend any GNU/Linux based hosting sites (preferably virtual servers) running distributions besides Red Hat. I know this has been covered
in the
past, but it seems everyone uses Red Hat, and I'm a Debian type person. Anyone out there have a host they can recommend?"
I was going to ask the same thing. From a shared hosting point of view, it doesn't really matter too much. IMHO, of course. :) You won't have root access to a shared hosting server, so all you really need the space for is for storing content and parsing scripts. And either distribution will do those things.
Unless of course he's referring to dedicated hosting, in which case he should be able to choose his own distribution.
Its just shalowness. He dosnt want to be associated with redhat users, because its not 'cool' enough for him. In reality, nothing a user hosts would notice a difference between distros. Thats why POSIX standards were made -- So all applications can follow them and not worry about enviroment. The only major relevant difference would be apache configs, but I strongly doubt a professional hosting company would be using a default apache install.
Instead, he should look at more important things like price and speed. BSDLink.net (main page currently down) offers unlmited bandwidth plans for as low as $3 a month, and thats on a 100mbit line. I dont think anyones HTML cares if its being served off a FreeBSD box, a RedHat box, or a Debian box.
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Most of all the web hosting guys will install and give you whatever OS you want on a dedicated server. You can get one from http://www.rackspace.com
www.nearlyfreespeech.net is always a good choice -- but I'm not sure whether or not they run Red Hat.
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Heh, shared hosting servers are a cess pool of insecurity generally, infact most admins fail to recognize that in a shared hosting environment local exploits become remote exploits because lots of users put plainly dumb scripts on a server. Thus, admins fail to patch local security problems, and voila people have root.
I can recommend "Dreamhost". I had a couple of websites with them for almost 3 years, until very recently (moved the sites to my own servers). They are not the cheapest, I think, but they have fast pipes and very stable servers. In all that time I only remember one long downtime, of some hours, because of a hardware failure (when they fixed it and reported/apologized for it, they included a picture of the faulty component --just geeky enough). They also have a decent account administration web system, and the support guys actually have blood flowing through their brains. And yes, they're a Debian shop.
Having said that, the distro probably doesn't matter if you're not the admin. Yes, choosing Debian over RH may speak well about their skill and knowledge... but to be completely honest, I didn't notice it was Debian until a year or so.
Hope this helps.
A lot of friends use Rhydio which is a UK-based company and only have good things to say about them. They run Slackware.
I've been with them for something like five years. I always get prompt personal customer service for the rare issue that ever comes up.
They support SSH login. I upload my web pages with SCP. You can use SSH tunnelling to get your pop mail, or log into a shell via ssh and use elm or pine.
There is a full suite of development tools online, and you can run CGI's that you write yourself.
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