Nico wrote:
> On 7 Sep, 01:22, invict0...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I have a question about Red Hat Linux Enterprise. My experience is
>> almost exclusively in Windows and I know almost nothing about Linux.
>> Here is my situation at work: we have a web server running Apache with
>> a MySQL database, but the site we have is running Windows 2000 Server
>> on an old HP box. My boss is going to get a new machine, but she
>> wants Linux put on it as the OS instead of Windows. The site gets
>> about 2.6 million hits a month and the server has 2 gig of
>> downloadable files on it. Here are my questions:
>>
>> 1. I'm trying to decide between putting Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
>> Red Hat Advanced Platform. Which software do you think would be best
>> for the type of website we have? There is no backup server or any
>> clustering or anything like that.
>
> It's irrelevant as faar as basic system capability is concerned. It's
> when you need industrial scale server support, and kernel
> modifications done by RedHat, and clustering features, that you need
> Advanced Platform.
>
You can get the same high levels of support for either. But the regular RHEL
release lets you get the lowest level of support for less money. That is not
available for the Advanced Server product.
I think they all get the same 2 kernels: the one for up to 4 GBytes of RAM,
and the one for more that uses the PAE extensions. I use the latter since I
have 8 GBytes RAM. The current one I have is 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5PAE. I have the
basic (cheapest) subscription that gives me automatic updates and
virtualization support (that I do not use). The difference is that if you
motherboard has more than two processor sockets, the regular RHEL does not
support it. It does not matter if you plug in hyperthreaded or multi-core
processors in those sockets (if the MB will take them, that is).
You should be able to see the differences here:
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/purchasing_guide.html http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/compare/
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