On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many > > services to the trading community (I am myself a trader). > > > > I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am > > very satisfied by its strength and its very active and deep involved > > community. My plan is to first train building the website on a VM > > server, then go to a remote dedicated server. > > > > Can you please give me some pro/against reasons for using Debian > > distro rather than Archlinux as a web server? Is there any provider > > offering Arch distro, as it seems it is hard, near impossible, to find > > one. > > > > TY for your advises. > I've been running an Arch web server for 3 years and there are > absolutely no problems. Can you please elaborate how you manage the regular updates, especially kernel, udev, glibc etc. Do you hold back the upgrades to packages which require a restart?
