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I'd rather just connect a spider KVM for those who want to manually install something exotic and be done with it
Hopefully you don't need to reinstall a freebsd server too often.
FreeBSD once setup, mostly just runs.
I have succeeded to build a lower memory footprint than with any *nix derivates and is pretty much bulletproof.
I awarded a 50 000$ bonus to anyone thatll break it. No luck so far.
So you are going to offer some dedicated servers? :P
Does hitting it with unlimited amounts of UDP traffic count as breaking it?
@Alex_LiquidHost maybe.
@rds100 Better the kimsufi prices?
@Taylor better, yes. As in higher. The OVH prices are just funny
Wish someone would offer low-low end dedicated servers. I would gladly take an ARM based board with a SATA connected drive
Nice thread suddenly with a bunch of us declaring our ages to be nearly middle ages
@rds100 You shouldn't even consider CentOS 5 as a possible choice, it's just to old. It's like installing a 5 year old entertainment system in a brand new car.
@jaakka said: I awarded a 50 000$ bonus to anyone thatll break it. No luck so far.
Does hitting it with unlimited amounts of UDP traffic count as breaking it?
No, you would have to have some proof from the filesystem.
They claim it will be supported until Mar 31st, 2017, and some software (like cPanel) still recommends it i think?
@jaakka i will find someone who will break it for 50k
He will even bring it to me, home for that price 
Just tell me the IP ;-)
CentOS5 is a must and I am pretty srue it will be supported for the following couple of years as well. I am still using it in my older nodes as well.
Got no idea what you are talking about, cause I am too lazy to scroll up. However for 50k I will go to the datacenter with a shotgun
Damn, thought you wanted to hack someone, my mistake ;d
Pretty good starting list. I have Ubuntu on mine.
It's true what you are saying in regards to support, but from my discussions with various folks from cPanel as well as fellow providers everyone recommends that you use CentOS 6. The thing is that it runs on an ancient Linux kernel and comes with ancient tools an libraries. Manually upgrading those is a bad idea. Your performance will also suffer if you use CentOS 5 on modern hardware. Of course, if you really want to use it over CentOS 6 then go ahead
Why is CentOS 5 a must?
Im sure some of you would. Its a cluster for OC.
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apply for a job then
Cause there are people still looking for it
We provide templates for Xen and KVM with CentOS 5 as well, but I wouldn't ever deploy it on a dedicated server or virtualization node. Of course that's my personal preference and I was just making a recommendation to @rds100.
I am too divided about CentOS 5, but it's because it doesn't support the discard mount option, so can't pass TRIM to a SSD. Which would be bad. Still i think it is quite popular among some people. We will see.
Oh, by the way debian 6 doesn't support it either, unless you install a kernel from backports
@rds100 You can always get kernel 3.0 for CentOS 5 from El Repo if you really want CentOS 5, but soon you will find yourself upgrading this and that and hacking away.
I'll more likely use CentOS 6 or Ubuntu 12.04 in your list, but oh yes, I use ArchLinux on some of my LEBes.
I think it's InceptionHosting that is currently offering Debian 7, which was excellent for testing some sortware cofigurations. I'm not sure how useful it'll be on a dedicated server that you probably don't want to be reinstalling.
Just something to think about.
Ubuntu 12.10
slackware and zenwalk