[KLUG Members] re: Question On Server and Enterprise software ( Happy New Year)

[Mike Williams]

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> "Sanjay Chigurupati" <Sanjay.Chigurupati@lntinfotech.com>
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> Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:56:00 +0530
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>Hi,
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>Happy New Year to everyone.
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>1) With Linux, is it advisable to run ftp/ http or any server software on a
>regular desktop?
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Depends on the size of the server tasks you're looking at, and whether 
you're talking about desktop-class hardware or a machine that is 
actually someone's workstation.  In the first case, you can get away 
with it in most situations.  For really high workloads or situations 
where the server absolutely positively must keep running it's probably 
better to have a real server-class machine.  Running a website off of 
somebody's workstation is possible but more risky.  As Adam pointed out 
in a previous post, you don't want a simple user error or giant 
rendering project taking the website down.

>2) If so, which are the situations in which we can use a desktop machine as
>server and which are the situations in which we should use a server
>machine?
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>3) Redhat and Suse come out with server editions like Advanced server ,
>Enterprise server. Which are the situations in which they can be used? I
>have gone through the site and would really appreciate feedback from a
>person with experience on this.
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Not sure about Advanced Server, but the difference between regular and 
professional (at least in SuSE and RedHat) is the application load.  
Professional comes equipped to serve more things like DNS, WWW, LDAP, 
and etc.  If you know what you're doing you can install most of that on 
a regular box and have the same effect.


All I know about Redhat Enterprise is that it's now the only one they'll 
support, it's very expensive, and it's fairly old code (7.x I think).  I 
think it also has some management packages that you can't get on the 
unsupported versions.

> What could be the limitations if I were to use general Linux instead of
>these special editions?
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>Thanks,
>Sanjay
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>P.S: Thanks for all the help in the past
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