Distros for Web Serving

[Stephen Partington]

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 <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com>
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 <plugaz at codezilla.xyz>
> 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
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