On 06 September 2007, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:

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.

Another question is why not to use CentOS. My web hosting ISP (OLM) doesn't use it. I can't imagine why not. It would seem to be more stable and have a longer life, etc. I would prefer they use CentOS, but, my web sites are on shared hosting.