Migrating from FreeBSD servers array to RHEL 5

[Chet Nichols III]

Hey there-
Noticed this question never got any responses or discussion. You make any
progress? :D

Chet

2008/6/2 okasion <okasion at gmail.com>:

> Hi everyone, this is my first post to the maillist.
>
> Well, basically I'm asking for opinions to get help on our migration of
> operative systems.
> Our company its a hosting that gives webhosting and basic fast mailservices
> besides other small things. We have very personal and flexible relationship
> with our customers and their needs.
>
> We have been using FreeBSD since year 2000, and besides "the normal
> problems" (ports upgrade, UFS - NFS maintenance, RPC daemons working weird,
> etc,), it has proven to be an incredible operative system that will make
> very old hardware reliable to make money.
>
> We are migrating now because we want to enter the virtualization world,
> offer housing, Java support, and have "real" support from Red Hat so we can
> take vacations once in a year and turn off our Nextel and forget about
> alarms. Also, people who knows Linux/Red Hat are MUCH common than FreeBSD
> guys, so that would help in the future when hiring more personal.
> I know much of the technical services we want to offer can be deployed on
> FreeBSD, but we also know these services are much easy and stable to install
> and use on RHEL.
>
> I am the main sysadmin and grew up with Red Hat since I was sixteen, (I'm
> 23 now) so I used Red Hat for a long time until I liked more Slackware and
> then Gentoo to use at home at least; I really have faith in Red Hat for
> servers.
>
> We are used to code everything on our own (C, PHP, PYTHON, Bash, old ASP,
> etc.) so it will be a little weird to migrate to Red Hat at first (rpm
> packages against FreeBSD ports its the main reason I think), but that's the
> point, use our time to offer new services rather than maintain the current
> ones with custom bugfixes.
>
> Any opinion will be appreciated. Thanks in advance guys.
>
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