On 18 April 2011 21:58, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/18/2011 11:46 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 04/18/2011 09:22 AM, JD wrote: >>> But the OP seems not to have taken this road :) >> And wisely, IMO. ÂNot because it's not a good idea but because doing >> that would require him to trust the hosting company, and I think they've >> already proven themselves to be untrustworthy. ÂMoving to a new company >> (and making sure that this time the contract *requires* them to install >> a more current OS) is probably his safest option at this point. > Even so, see as Fedora becomes "OLD" in about > a 18 to 36 months, what hosting company is going to agree to update the > system? > Not very many! The good ones? Slicehost has already been mentioned - that generally offers the latest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu pretty rapidly. Rackspace Cloud offers roughly the same, only it takes slightly longer.In my experience, it is the good hosting companies (often at the more expensive end of the market) who devote resources to this. If you're in the "Managed Hosting" business (Slicehost isn't), it generally takes you a bit longer to release new versions as you have to qualify the releases with your other tools - the Hosting company I work for has only just qualified/released RHEL 5.6 (available Jan 13th) as it takes that long to qualify it with things like external storage and backup system vendors. However that same hosting company will happily install Fedora or CentOS or Ubuntu or Gentoo if you ask, but we don't support it in the way we would with RHEL as it's not qualified with all the 3rd party vendors we use. -- Sam -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
