I have been really happy with php7 lately, especially giving it a touch more ram than I used to. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Andrew McRobb wrote: > PHP 7 is almost 2x faster and I use MariaDB and CentOS for work and > production. No complaints here except that some of the repos are a bit > dated, but there are 100 tutorials on upgrading to PHP 7, so I wont burn > time writing one. If you also want to speed things up, I highly recommend > using Docker however. > > Creates a sense of security between applications/server. > Skip a LOT of setup when Docker containers have lot of environment > variables you can set to do things for you. > > If you like the idea of Docker, but want something more 'native' and > mature. FreeBSD is also good w/ it's jails. That's just my two cents. > > > Andrew McRobb > Full-time Software Developer > Part-time Freelancer > mcrobb.info > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Nathan O'Brennan > wrote: > >> >> I've been using RedHat/Centos for 20 years now and generally don't look >> much else for my server needs. I have a production server that is seriously >> straining under the load and it appears to be time to upgrade to a larger >> server. But I'm wondering about the benefits of php7 and maybe a newer >> mariadb than what currently ships on Centos 7. >> >> Call me an old dog, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the idea of using >> Ubuntu server and learning all the new stuff. I'm a developer who also is >> tasked with managing all the servers and just not sure I'll have the time >> to learn new tricks. >> >> Maybe I'm just looking for a confidence boost, but any other devops guys >> here using linux web serving and looking at some of the newer technologies? >> >> I appreciate your thoughts and insights. >> >> Nathan >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen