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Centos vs FreeBSD on Quad Core systems
Hi X-perts,
I am finally moving to a new server and need some more recommendations which OS to select. This is the server spec:
Core2 Quad 2.4Ghz (or 2.66); 2GB Ram; 320GB SATA
i have a choice of FreeBSD 6 or Centos 5 (32 bits or 64 bits). There are my considerations:
1) Centos kernel better performs on quad systems than FreeBSD. I have seen great benchmark charts of FreeBSD 7, but it is not yet compatible with Plesk (I wanted to have Plesk anyway)
2) freeBSD has some better security out-of-the box and easier to configure (may be it is not true, because I have been using freebsd and not linux before)
3) Freebsd has better performance on single core systems, but sin ce i am getting quad core, it is not a case
So, would be a right choice to go for centos?
If yes, which "unnecessary" options would be recommended to disable? I have seen many references that centos out-of-the-box comes with a lot of extra options that cold be disabled to increase performance
Any ideas would be appreciated
I am finally moving to a new server and need some more recommendations which OS to select. This is the server spec:
Core2 Quad 2.4Ghz (or 2.66); 2GB Ram; 320GB SATA
i have a choice of FreeBSD 6 or Centos 5 (32 bits or 64 bits). There are my considerations:
1) Centos kernel better performs on quad systems than FreeBSD. I have seen great benchmark charts of FreeBSD 7, but it is not yet compatible with Plesk (I wanted to have Plesk anyway)
2) freeBSD has some better security out-of-the box and easier to configure (may be it is not true, because I have been using freebsd and not linux before)
3) Freebsd has better performance on single core systems, but sin ce i am getting quad core, it is not a case
So, would be a right choice to go for centos?
If yes, which "unnecessary" options would be recommended to disable? I have seen many references that centos out-of-the-box comes with a lot of extra options that cold be disabled to increase performance
Any ideas would be appreciated
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yes, i do have an option to configure it with 64 bits Centos.
What about installations of applications like ModSecurity - any potential problems on centos comparing to freebsd?
What about installations of applications like ModSecurity - any potential problems on centos comparing to freebsd?
It should be fine on CentOS.
Here is the binary rpm of ModSecruity for CentOS.
http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/
Here is the binary rpm of ModSecruity for CentOS.
http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/
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sorry, i do not get it. are you suggesting that to install a single mod security I will have to install and keep updated ALL rpms of that guy jasonlitka.com?
This is the way he is suggesting to keep everything updated...
There are two mod security rpms at http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL4/x86_64/
Probably I could just install these unless there are some linked libraries
This is the way he is suggesting to keep everything updated...
There are two mod security rpms at http://www.jasonlitka.com/media/EL4/x86_64/
Probably I could just install these unless there are some linked libraries
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http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/reqs/
So I would recommend you go for CentOS for furhter upgrade or support from Pleak.
64bit is definitely highly recommended even though you have only 2GB memory so far.
64bit kernel treat all the memory as low memory so the performance is better specially compare to access the high memory on 32bit OS.
For security, there are a lot of Security guides for RHEL or CentOS you can download from website. i.e.
http://www.linux-books.us/download.php5?f=cos_security_guide.zip
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Security_Guide/
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