RH 8 or 9 for production environment

["Mike McMullen" <mlm loanprocessing net>]

Hi all,

I have a need to upgrade to Apache 2.0. From searching the
archives and googling it appears that the easiest thing to do
from a production environment view is to upgrade to a later
release than 7.3.

Unless I am missing some easy way to install Apache 2.0 and
still maintain a system that can be kept up to date with up2date.

What version of RH are people recommending for production 
systems that aren't 7.3?

My key services are:

web
imap
sendmail
samba
ssh
DNS

Any help appreciated,
 
Mike