Switched From Gentoo to Ubuntu
Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:12:57 +1100
SliceHost 3-Way-Handshake Podcast Episode 8 — over 80% of Slice at SliceHost runs on Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu), verses around 5.5% for Gentoo. RPM-based distributions (CentOS, Fedora, etc) is a bit bigger but simply does not compare with overwhelming domination of Debian-based distributions.
Over the last 3-4 months I have also gradually moved my Gentoo based servers to either Ubuntu or Debian (prefer the latest Ubuntu if available). In fact I have just deleted my 18 month old Gentoo slice at SliceHost, and moved all content to a new slice running Ubuntu 7.10 last month. Now I am happy to say that all of my live servers/VPS are now running either Ubuntu or Debian, and it has changed my Monday morning (my usual mass-update morning) from:
# emerge --sync
# emerge -avD world
- Starring at compilation messages scrolling across the screen.
- Trying to figure out why some packages are blocking, some packages do not emerge, and why some packages I upgraded last week is now down-grading again.
- … 20 minutes later I finally got my root prompt back!
- Restart all services that I have emerged, finger crossed hoping that nothing breaks, otherwise
revdep-rebuild
while reading special upgrading instruction on PAM, MySQL, or OpenSSL at Gentoo.org.
To:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade
Upgrading all the packages in the Gentoo Portage system can be very time consuming, and it gets worse when you have quite a few servers to upgrade!
However, I still love my Gentoo and still use it on my desktop and my home server, continuously updated over the last 3-4 years. We still use it at work because of how configurable it is, and how easy it is to write an ebuild script. Portage, IMHO, is still the best thing since slice bread, but unfortunately it is not the best thing for my VPS at slice host. Building takes too long, it is too CPU and IO intensive that I am afraid I am hurting my neighbours’ performance. Moreover, if something breaks my application due to upgrading (far less than uncommon in the Gentoo world), it will take ages to revert back to the previous version (especially heavy builds like MySQL upgrades) — when my service is down!
Great for development boxes, but not so great for production boxes hosting services that people might want to access 24/7.
Ubuntu is constantly improving since the last time I gave it a try. apt-get
is a joy to use comparing to yum
on CentOS/Fedora. It has almost all the packages I need, and Debian package control files are not that hard to write either. One thing I have not yet tried is dist-upgrade, which is probably even more scary than emerge world
. HardyHeron will (hopefully) be released next month so I guess I’ll be able to find out how easy dist-upgrade on a VPS is.
$4,000 Crucial Contest
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:20:16 +0000
We’re already in "holiday mode" at Crucial, and to spread the love around, we decided to launch a giveaway. Here are the prizes that are up for grabs:
11-3-07 Brief Outages on vhost-13
Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:46:32 +0000
At approximately 10:15am November 3rd one of the Crucial web servers came under a massive coordinated DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). The attack came in three massive bursts which were effective in denying httpd service to clients of that host for very brief periods of less than 30 minutes each.
The attack came in a ...]
Asterisk -A quick look under the hood
Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:12:42 -0500
So you have Asterisk installed to your CentOS hardware. Now what? Let’s open up the hood and see what Asterisk can do… Before we do that, let’s examine some things that you need to know about Asterisk to setup and manage your Asterisk box…
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