Re: New user question

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I run several servers, a couple on SKB-Enterprise, which is very inexpensive, and a couple more on the Oracle Cloud that run at no cost. On the SKB-Enterprise servers, I choose Ubuntu 20.04 with ISPConfig as my control panel that allows me to configure email and websites very easily and does most of the heavy lifting behind the scenes in a secure way, although I also do other sysadmin stuff over ssh or sshfs. My Oracle Cloud servers run Ubuntu 22.04, and I don't do anything with ISPConfig on those, since it doesn't yet support 22.04, and even the newest Debian is older than I would like. In any case, the Oracle Cloud free tier can't be beat, with 4 2GHz ARM A72 processor cores and 24GB RAM, along with 2 AMD servers with 1 virtual core each and 1GB of RAM, with a total of 200GB of disk space between them, all at no cost whatsoever. The only catch is that you choose a home region when you set up and can't change it later, so I would suggest New York or Amsterdam, being two of the best connected regions in the world. In any case, the server provider probably won't answer your question, but for the OS, I would say that Ubuntu if it is available will give you the best compromise between stability and security of the OS and relatively younger age of the software, although upstream Debian is probably my second choice, since it has been updated a bit more frequently in recent years; just be sure to enable backports.

~Kyle

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