Fedora 7 for Remote Server
Lai Zit Seng
lzs at pobox.com
Mon Jun 11 14:49:00 UTC 2007
On 6/11/07 9:58 PM, Eric wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a server in the next few weeks that will be located
> remotely (next town from here) and will be accessible 24x7 only with a
> fair amount of inconvenience and wasted time (find my key card to the
> co-location room, then drive 30-45 minutes each way and go through
> normal level of difficulty finding someplace to park, etc.).
>
> The server will serve web, FTP, SSH, Subversion (via svn+ssh protocol),
> and a contacts manager database called Turba running on Horde, both of
> which are PHP applications that run via Apache HTTPD.
>
> Platform will be 1.8-GHz P4 with 512 MB RAM. Internet connection will
> be via a multi-megabyte backbone (don't know exactly how fast but it's
> pretty fast).
>
> Security is a major consideration and so I'd like to run on the "most
> current" version of Fedora, i.e. F7, so that security issues can be kept
> up to date.
>
> Is Fedora 7 "ready" for this or am I asking for trouble?
>
> For the record, I have had no problems ... so far ... with F7 on VMware.
How ready is ready enough? Imho, Fedora has come quite a long way. I'd
expect there would still be some glitches. But it's already over a week
since Fedora 7 is out, if you run into any problems, it is likely you
would find some useful information through Google.
Regards,
.lzs
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