Arch Linux

p4l4cl][n

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 43

Arch as production server

Hi,
can you recommend Archlinux as production server? I really like all the cutting-edge technologies.. But I had problems with Arch on my VPS (after-update kind) and I'm not sure if they are caused by Arch or by OpenVZ.. But production server simply cannot be down for a few hours simply because I ran "pacman -Syyu"..

So I am considering both Arch or SL6..

Thanks for your opinions ^_^

Allan

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Re: Arch as production server

If you have to ask the question, then Arch is not good on a production server...

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p4l4cl][n

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Registered: 2011-11-16

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Re: Arch as production server

What do you mean?

Pierre

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Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: Arch as production server

If you cannot have downtime you need redundant systems; means more than one server. Updates are always risky, no matter which distro.

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sealclubber

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Registered: 2012-04-16

Posts: 34

Re: Arch as production server

Hi,
can you recommend Archlinux as production server? I really like all the cutting-edge technologies.. But I had problems with Arch on my VPS (after-update kind) and I'm not sure if they are caused by Arch or by OpenVZ.. But production server simply cannot be down for a few hours simply because I ran "pacman -Syyu"..

So I am considering both Arch or SL6..

Thanks for your opinions ^_^

No. Get RHEL.

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tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 661

Re: Arch as production server

can you recommend Archlinux as production server?

No.

Terminator

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: Arch as production server

I really like all the cutting-edge technologies. ... But production server simply cannot be down for a few hours

You should probably choose one or the other. If I had to set up an important linux server, I would go for something ultra stable and well-tested (probably debian stable).

p4l4cl][n

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 43

Re: Arch as production server

Ok, thanks for opinions.. I will probably go with SL

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: Arch as production server

The main reason that I see for not using archlinux on a production server is that in a production server applications cannot get major upgrades automatically. Arch doesn't follow this. In example, the python command one day changed from python2 to python3. This kind of sutff can't happen in a production server unless explicity requested.

On the other hand, this is also one thing that I like about ArchLinux, because it "enforces" you to stay up to date about newer version of all kind of stuff, making it your way of living to be familiar with present day technologies (or future technologies in case of most production servers).

ericcoleman

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Registered: 2012-03-02

Posts: 1

Re: Arch as production server

We are running Arch in production... Only problem so far was the kernel upgrade to 3 broke a raid array, but it was fixable.

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: Arch as production server

We are running Arch in production... Only problem so far was the kernel upgrade to 3 broke a raid array, but it was fixable.

One server, 1 raid broke. Imagine that you have to take care of 100 ArchLinux servers