From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh
Hi,
CentOS seems to be doing really well in the hosting business these days, and even for people who would normally have used Windows or OSX on the hosting previously, are now looking at using CentOS. And I thought it would be nice to have a section on the wiki about exactly why that is.
Not having any direct connection with the hosting business I was wondering if people here could help me out a bit and let me know why they think CentOS is good / bad as a platform in this market segment.
I suppose that would include dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, Shared / Virtual hosting, and even high performance grid hosting that a few people seem to be offering these days.
Once we have some material here in this thread, everything will go online at the wiki ( with due credit to all contributors ).
I would assume it is because of the cost.
Most large-scale and small-scale web hosting are looking to drive costs down, so are more willing to choose an OS that carries the least cost overhead.
Why buy support for 1000 servers when each are identically configured?
Why not just buy support for 10 web-development/testing servers that mirror the production servers and if an OS problem creeps up it should be reproducable on the supported development/testing environment which can then utilize the commercial support?
Cost is the first place I would look.
-Ross
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