Debian or Ubuntu for server?

Re:Debian or Ubuntu for server? by jamongkad on Monday June 18, 2007 @11:59AM (#28903)

Hi guys I'm about to configure a VPS for my web app(for testing and learning purposes plus it's my first time to launch a site in my life much less configure a webserver.) And upon recommendation of my webhost(a2b2) Debian and Ubuntu would be the best choice as I only have a small VPS to begin with. So what do YCers think? which should I choose?

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Re:Debian or Ubuntu for server? by dfranke on Monday June 18, 2007 @02:31PM (#28935)

Go with Debian stable. It's rock-solid.

I've done very poorly with Ubuntu. I've tried installing it twice. The first time, it installed successfully but then when I rebooted it trashed my RAID configuration and dropped into single-user mode. The second time, which was last week, the installer kept hanging in bizarre places. The whole distribution just seems to be geared toward very simple hardware configurations and chokes at the slightest violation of its expectations.

Also consider a BSD, though.

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Re:Debian or Ubuntu for server? by jamongkad on Monday June 18, 2007 @09:05PM (#29041)

Thanks for the response I'm definitely leaning on Debian...

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Re:Debian or Ubuntu for server? by davidw on Monday June 18, 2007 @12:08PM (#28904)

I've been using Ubuntu because of the more frequent releases

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Re:Debian or Ubuntu for server? by omouse on Monday June 18, 2007 @01:26PM (#28918)

Or he can use a different distro...like ArchLinux, Slackware or Gentoo. But if it's between just those two, then I agree with you, go for Ubuntu! :D

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