Re:Why isn't there a Linux distro out there that is made for...
by olefoo on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @01:43AM
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You can build your own packages, with whatever tweaks you want built in. The thing is once you get past a certain size, you've got too many servers to be treating them as individuals.
And if you're past 4 machines you really want to start looking at cfengine.
You can't really build a one-size-fits-all distribution for everyone. Sure you can get a basic LAMP stack setup, but 1) is that what you really want in a PHP situation and 2) not everyone is rolling a simple PHP website these days.
If what you're trying to solve is the problem with "scalability" then a Distro isn't gonna help. A carefully constructed architecture and implementation is what will. I personally tend to shy away from a big cluster of apt-get installations in favor of installing certain things straight from source. You can bet that all of the huge sites out there are rolling their own too.. Facebook has their own version of Apache and so do companies like Yahoo.
I think something like this might be good for simple in-house development and testing, but again, not everyone's needs are the same. I totally love server configuration, and oftentimes it gives me a real nice break from coding and designing. There is nothing more fun and satisfying than getting a new server up in just a few hours configured to the best of my abilities.
Whateva hopefully these comments make sense. Been up all night and running on adderall and mcdonalds.