Re: Questions about Red Hat Linux Enterprise

invict0us1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have a question about Red Hat Linux Enterprise. My experience is
almost exclusively in Windows and I know almost nothing about Linux.
Here is my situation at work: we have a web server running Apache with
a MySQL database, but the site we have is running Windows 2000 Server
on an old HP box. My boss is going to get a new machine, but she
wants Linux put on it as the OS instead of Windows. The site gets
about 2.6 million hits a month and the server has 2 gig of
downloadable files on it. Here are my questions:

1. I'm trying to decide between putting Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
Red Hat Advanced Platform. Which software do you think would be best
for the type of website we have? There is no backup server or any
clustering or anything like that.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
To be running a web- and MySQL server as described above it isn't even
necessary to purchase an enterprise distribution.
Installing a free Red Hat clone like CentOS (www.centos.org) could be an
option. CentOS is derived from the same source code as Red Hat, and updates
will be provided free of charge for the same time frame as for Red Hat EL.
If additional support is required it can be purchased too.

Other free distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu have a much shorter release-
and support cycle.


2. I know most versions of Linux are free, but you have to pay for
some. When I went to the Red Hat site, it showed difference
subscription prices, which are support for the software, so does that
price include the software itself (which I assume they'll send to you
with documentation) and the support or what?

The subscription prices include both the software, software upgrades and the
level of support you has purchased, as described at the Red Hat site.


3. What kind of machine should we get to run the versions of Linux
above (processor speed, RAM, etc.)?

A low end server should be sufficient to run this, like a Dell PowerEdge 840
with a dual core Intel Xeon, 2 GB RAM and two SATA hard drives in RAID 1.

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Regards,
ToreS

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