Fedora 7 for Remote Server

Mauriat M mirandam at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 14:24:45 UTC 2007


On 6/11/07, Eric <spamsink at scoot.netis.com> wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a server in the next few weeks that will be located remotely
> (next town from here) and will be accessible 24x7 only with a fair amount
> of inconvenience and wasted time (find my key card to the co-location room,
> then drive 30-45 minutes each way and go through normal level of difficulty
> finding someplace to park, etc.).
>
> The server will serve web, FTP, SSH, Subversion (via svn+ssh protocol), and
> a contacts manager database called Turba running on Horde, both of which
> are PHP applications that run via Apache HTTPD.
>
> Platform will be 1.8-GHz P4 with 512 MB RAM.  Internet connection will be
> via a multi-megabyte backbone (don't know exactly how fast but it's pretty
> fast).
>
> Security is a major consideration and so I'd like to run on the "most
> current" version of Fedora, i.e. F7, so that security issues can be kept up
> to date.
>
> Is Fedora 7 "ready" for this or am I asking for trouble?
>
> For the record, I have had no problems ... so far ... with F7 on VMware.

Just a thought. Have you looked into CentOS 5?

-Mauriat




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