Based on your software version requirements (php5, mysql5), I would wait until CentOS 5 comes out. It shouldn't be too much longer now. Unless you know your raid management software well, I'd recommend software raid. Based on the motherboard, I'm guessing you won't see a performance advantage for the 'hardware' raid. Thanks. On 3/30/07, Cen Tos <centos.admin at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm a relative newbie to all this so pardon me if the following are all > stupid questions. > > Firstly, I'm setting up a web server and gone from planning to use Ubuntu > (due to some familiarity as a desktop at home) to CentOS based on > recommendations by experienced webhosters. > > However now that I looked into CentOS, I find myself at a point where it's > transitting to a major new version. So the key question for me is, should I > wait for CentOS 5 to be released or just go for 4.4? > > Being rather new to Linux, my attempts to try to figure out the > differences between the two has been rather futile since I can't readily > tell what is really important to me or not. All that I think I'm sure of now > is that 5 would support virtualization using Xen and 4.4 doesn't have it. > This alone is food for thought since the idea of being able to compartalize > each website in their own VM sounds good in the long run. > > I'm tempted to wait for 5 since I'm reluctant to run the risk of having to > upgrade a live server to version 5 and have it failed specutacularly if I > screw it up. On the other hand, it's uncertain when 5 will be out and > definitely waiting more than another 2 weeks isn't quite acceptable without > compelling reasons. > > Hence I'll appreciate it if the knowledgeable folks on this mailing list > can advise which is the wiser route to go. > > Some additional information which may be relevant to the decision. > > 1. RAID : Was planning to run "hardware" RAID 1 on the server and has > noted comments that software RAID 1 on Linux may be better than raid 1 using > onboard firmware controllers. > > 2. Software that would be running on the server would include Apache 2.xwith ASPx support, php > 5.x, MySQL 5.x, Exim, ProFTPD, Direct Admin (supposed to be developed on > RH and one user apparently tested it to work right out of the box with 5 > Beta, part of the reason why I decided to go with CentOS) > > 3. Hardware to be used would be Intel Core 2 Duo on an Asus P5B-VM-D0 > (Q965, ICH8-D0, Intel GMA3000 GPU) with SATA hard disks. > > 4. Network bandwidth control based on request IP or domains (i.e. > connections to IP #1 can be limited to 512Kbps, while connections to IP #2 > can be limited to 1024Kbps, or connections to www.domainA.com is limited > to 256Kbps etc. > > Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070330/3150d3eb/attachment-0005.html>