-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just tossing my $0.02. On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:28:38AM +0800, Cen Tos wrote: > However now that I looked into CentOS, I find myself at a point where it's > transitting to a major new version. So the key question for me is, should I > wait for CentOS 5 to be released or just go for 4.4? I, for one, won't be migrating or installing new servers with CentOS 5 for a while yet. I'll be probably only doing tests and adapting script and procedures during the next 1 or 2 months. Jumping to a new version on a prodution server right after it is released is a bit too risky for my tastes. > 1. RAID : Was planning to run "hardware" RAID 1 on the server and has noted > comments that software RAID 1 on Linux may be better than raid 1 using onboard > firmware controllers. 3ware :) > 2. Software that would be running on the server would include Apache 2.x with > ASPx support, php 5.x, MySQL 5.x, Exim, ProFTPD, Direct Admin (supposed to be > developed on RH and one user apparently tested it to work right out of the box > with 5 Beta, part of the reason why I decided to go with CentOS) If you want php 5.x and MySQL 5.x, you definitively should wait for CentOS 5. > 4. Network bandwidth control based on request IP or domains (i.e. connections > to IP #1 can be limited to 512Kbps, while connections to IP #2 can be limited > to 1024Kbps, or connections to www.domainA.com is limited to 256Kbps etc. As far as I'm concerned, this kind of thing should be no different in either of the 2 versions. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGDffDpdyWzQ5b5ckRAtpRAKC1UXPPgNcYcF6Ggl9VEwWl8KtN6wCfTBm3 ExDC/iKR6XXI1PhVCTE07zI= =h/xE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos