[arch-general] Arch as a web server

[Jean-Luc Bassereau]

Le 19/06/2012 12:07, Arno Gaboury a écrit :
> On 06/19/2012 11:56 AM, Arno Gaboury wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I plan to settle in the comimg months a web server to deliver many 
>> services to the trading community (I am myself a trader).
>>
>> I daily use Arch as my system on my home box, and I must admit I am 
>> very satisfied by its strength and its very active and deep involved 
>> community. My plan is to first train building the website on a VM 
>> server, then go to a remote dedicated server.
>>
>> Can you please give me some pro/against reasons for using Debian 
>> distro rather than Archlinux as a web server? Is there any provider 
>> offering Arch distro, as it seems it is hard, near impossible, to find 
>> one.
>>
>> TY for your advises.
> I just want to add I am just a small level over the n00b status,
> let's say I am a n00b++, and learning Debian specificities can proove
> to be a waste of time.


Depending on the webapps you wish to run, some of them might be very 
unpleased not to meet the "usual" distros.
Furthermore, administrating a production Arch web server might be in my 
own opinion a time consuming activity (regarding the rolling release 
aspect). Especially if (like most of admins) you prefer to test updates 
on a "PreProd" server before applying them on production one. You may 
probably have a look on the ArchServer project.