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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