On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:58:14AM -0000, Simon J. Blandford wrote: > I have a colocated Dell 2650 web/webcasting server running very smoothly > with Red Hat 8.0 Professional. The problem is that there will be no more > security updates for it after January. You may want to consider the Progeny project - $5 per month to continue getting security updates. I don't know much more than that though. > In terms of EOL, I could get RH ES 3.0 with its 5 years EOL or I could get > RH9.0 on it which will be officially supported to April and then community > supported with updates by the Fedora project. Depending on what your web server all runs, you could also consider Red Hat Professional Workstation or RHEL WS. Both include Apache and a few other server apps. If you've currently got RHN for your 8.0 server, you can get WS (and maybe ES - I can't remember for sure) for half price. That would be 2 years for $349 for ES, or $179 for WS. That will get you a couple of years at which time you can see what your options and prices are. > If possible I would like to "upgrade" the OS without actually having to > re-install all the applications & spend a long time tweaking the server to > get it back how it was. I just want to take the path of least resistance > to keep the server running as it is now. What you like and what you can reliably aren't necessarily the same :-). Any major upgrade is risky. 8.0 to 9 is supported, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it will work. > 1) Can I upgrade to RH 9 reliably without a re-install? I normally like to > clean re-install OS's but this is a special case. It should work, but then it might not. You get to except the risk. > 2) Can I upgrade to RH ES 3 without a clean re-install? This is most definitely not supported. There is a hidden upgradeany option in the installer, but a RH engineer posted about this on taroon-list within the last few days saying that this hasn't even been tested, let alone supported. > 3) If I can upgrade, is it possible to upgrade remotely by internet so > that I _only_ need to drive to the other side of town if it all goes > horribly wrong. You could probably set up a remote kickstart. The kickstart stuff is documented in the online Red Hat doc set. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
