01-12-2010, 04:39 AM
(01-12-2010, 03:12 AM)trilobyte- Wrote: It depends, are you talking about Paid hosting?
Most paid hosting doesn't make you actually manage a server from the shell. They usually give you a cPanel. Mine doesn't say exactly what UNIX, it just says UNIX.
But if you're talking about your own home server, then I reccomend Fedora. My mate and I have one that he has at his house in Tassie, it's great for us to share stuff, as I ive on the otherside of the country.
All servers will do that, that isn't a good reason why Fedora is better than anything else.
Anyway, I recommend FreeBSD; I've tried many operating systems 'live' and FreeBSD has been the easiest and it's very secure by default. If you have to go with Linux...go with CentOS; It's just like RHEL (Red Hat) but without the branding and support, and unless you're doing something 'mission-critical' you won't need the support...you have Google and IRC.