On 05/01/2021 19:32, Jamie Burchell wrote: > Hello > > I've recently discovered the announcement regarding the change in direction > for the CentOS project and I imagine like many others, I'm confused and > concerned about what this means moving forward. > > I work for a small web development agency and we offer hosting as part of > our package to clients who need it. We have many CentOS 7 web servers > (DigitalOcean droplets) (LAMP/LEMP) that I look after and today I'm > thankful I have only migrated one of those to CentOS 8, given the recent > announcement about its curtailed EOL. I literally just went to the Wiki > today to confirm the EOL date for EL7 and boy am I glad I spotted it. > > Given we are not developing drivers or applications (other than websites > and web applications), is the change a non-issue for my use-case? I've seen > it written that CentOS Stream is the "development version" of RHEL but also > that we shouldn't have considered RHEL to be the beta for CentOS. Others > have said to think of CentOS more like RHEL RC-1. I just don't know how the > stability will compare and we have historically always chosen CentOS for > its stability (and of course price). > > Sure, I could migrate to Ubuntu (I use this locally in WSL), but I've > become somewhat "comfy slippers" with CentOS and have built our setup > around it (including custom ansible scripts etc) and don't want to change > everything unncessarily. > > Of course, a lot of this is somewhat dependent on what DigitalOcean will > decide to provide image wise moving forward. > > I'm sorry if this has already been answered, I spent a good few hours > reading through the respective threads in the devel list and ended up more > confused than I started. > > Cheers, > Jamie Hi Jamie, Unfortunately no one can advise you as to what may be a suitable operating system for your business needs. One thing is clear, the operating system you are currently running (CentOS Linux) is being brought to end of life, version 7 in 2024 and version 8 in 2021. That gives you at least a year (for 8) if not longer to consider and evaluate alternatives. As your current OS will no longer exist, I would start with a blank sheet, look at the OSes that do exist and evaluate each based on it's merits and suitability for your business needs and requirements. Cheers, Phil