From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c32f496672c2e0c5 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.205.65 with SMTP id fp1mr29197194qab.4.1357280261100; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.95.68 with SMTP id di4mr8658241qeb.0.1357280261066; Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:17:41 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni4895qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no1175766qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:17:40 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.201.93.131; posting-account=aCLEfwoAAAAOAatsIFtV_Z_eteRd3roE NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.201.93.131 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux distro for new server? From: montezf@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:17:41 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-01-03T22:17:40-08:00 List-Id: Now is a good time to take a step back and really look at what you can do h= ere. I'm firmly in the one task per server camp. How about taking a secon= d look at entertaining running a virtual environment. Which one you choose= doesn't really matter as long as it is something that you can be comfortab= le with. You could go with something like Vyatta as the firewall vm, or m0n0wall, IP= Cop or any of the other various distributions suited for this purpose. Eve= n a UTM like Endian, SmoothWall or Untangle could work. =20 Hopefully you aren't using the web front end as your dev machine. So I dun= no if it really matters which distribution you go with. But if you had to = have an answer, I would say Ubuntu Server would probably get my vote. Debi= an stable is nice, but unless you're going to put a lot into your toolchain= to make sure you can recover from an incident or disaster, Ubuntu Server w= ill probably get you back up and running with slightly less of a headache. Your server is getting long in the tooth but still operational. If you thi= nk a virtual environment is inevitable then you should look at moving there= now. Once you get something implemented, it'll be difficult or impossible= to decouple them. As a thought, you could setup your virtual infrastructu= re and P2V your existing server and have it running on your new hardware as= a virtual while you kinda get your feet wet the the VM stuff and get the r= eplacement environment built out.