Hi folks, I'm just going to take a dedicated server from ThePlanet and the provider give me some options to chose from, which OS to use?: *Windows Server 2003R2 Standard Edition *FreeBSD 6.2 *Centos Enterprise Linux, Version 5 *CentOS Enterprise Linux, Version 4 *Windows Server 2003, Standard *Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 4 *Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5 Which one would you chose considering I'm going to set several websites on it (including some sites with vBulletin forums). I think for panel i will use cPanel, with Fantastico. Am i doing the right thing? Consider they offer also Helm, Plesk and Ensim. Another point is they offer the SQL server. Which one you suggest? *Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Workgroups - 2 proc *Dedicated Microsoft SQL 2005 - Single Processor *MySQL *SQL Server 2000 for Workgroups- 1 proc *SQL Server 2000 for Workgroups- 2 proc *Dedicated Microsoft SQL 2005 - Dual Processor *Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Workgroups - 1 proc *Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2000- Single Proc *Dedicated Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - Dual Proc Is MySQL ok considering after all I'm setting some vbulletin? Thanks guys for your pompt answers. Take Care Irongloves
Well, cPanel is probably the best for someone with not a whole lot of experience (imho anyways). For the operating system I would probably go with CentOS 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Liunx 5 (both are essentially the same OS). Now the SQL server part, well I think they're doing that for people who want to run a dedicated server just for doing the SQL. At this point in time I don't think you need it and you should be fine with cPanel and it's install of MySQL on the same machine as everything else.
Hi Theplanet ???? Someone told there service is not good However Centos with cpanel is good if u r going to sell webspace add rvsitebuider too thanks
I won't recommend theplanet at all. For OS, CentOS 4.5 (64bit if supported) + MySQL For Panel : DirectAdmin (personal) or cPanel (selling)