Karanbir Singh wrote:
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 ).
As a web host, I'm gearing all 'soon-to-be-launched' systems to CentOS for many reasons. The first was mentioned in this thread: most CP applications for hosting are based around RPM-friendly distros. The second is actually /most/ important to me and it isn't cost. It's this list and the CentOS community. The community support for CentOS is as good /if not better/ than that of Upstream or any other OS's I've used over the past 10 years.
The distro is solid, has longevity and is robust. Sounds like a win-win to me and that's why we are migrating *all* of our systems to CentOS.
~Ray
*tongue in cheek: for additional comments in the typical US$0.02 intervals, feel free to contact me*