Which would you prefer: Ubuntu 10 LTS or 8 LTS for a new Rails web server?
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Which would you prefer and why? Are there known issues with Ubuntu 10 LTS Server Edition, with memory leaks for example, or more overhead in general? Googling seems to not reveal any problems, but one friend had memory issues running PHP & Magento. But my plan is to use mysql / nginx / passanger / ruby enterprise edition / rails. Currently I'm running an Ubuntu 9 server, but I'm not considering 9 since it'll stop being supported the earliest, April 2011. What do you think?
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Answer:
Ubuntu 10 has kernel panicked on me at least once on a 64-bit EC2 instance. I've had two more crashes of unspecified cause since. Hard to tell what broke - no logs and no time to investigate. Never used 8 or 9 with 64-bit, so I'm blaming it on 64-bit/EC2 not on 10 right now. Dealing with old releases is a PITA. If you're still developing right now, you'll inevitably run into significantly outdated packages even with LTS. And trust me, you don't want to maintain your own backports. I'd go with 10 - In case there's something seriously wrong with it, it'll stabilize soon enough. Better yet - configure your servers/apps by script and record all changes to a revision control system, so that you can easily move between releases should you encounter problems.
Paul Bohm at Quora Visit the source
Other answers
Check out Puppet (http://www.puppetlabs.com/) for configuration management. It may be a bit too much for your needs at the moment (but I think that's the kind of tool Paul was talking about when he said script your configuration). To start, if you're on slicehost (which for some reason I am assuming that you are), it's easy to follow their tutorials to get your slice up to speed.
Alex Notov
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