[olug] Best distro for bleeding edge web server and best VPS

[T. J. Brumfield]

Old PHP and Apache/Nginx packages often have known security vulnerabilities
and yet the major distros still drag their feet on providing the latest and
greatest. If there is a really critical security vulnerability, they'll
patch in a fix for that into an old package.

There are also performance concerns where PHP 5.5 and Apache 2.4 offered
huge gains and yet every distro waited for ages to provide packages.
On Mon Nov 03 2014 at 12:56:06 PM Nate Benes <nate at prefork.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure that running bleeding-edge software on a server is the best
> idea, but you might check out Arch.  The AUR seems to stay pretty up to
> date.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Kenton Brede <kbrede at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Amazon's version of Linux on AWS allows for selecting different versions
> of
> > packages, from their repository.  You might want to spin up a box there
> and
> > take a look.  I don't know if all the packages are the "latest" but
> they've
> > got newer packages than RHEL or CentOS, etc.
> >
> > Alternatively you can always point to other repositories like EPEL to get
> > new packages.  Or compile your own debs or rpms.
> > Kent
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:16 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What distro is best at having the latest packages for Apache (or
> nginx),
> > > PHP, MYSQL (or MariaDB), etc?
> > >
> > > I've put together Fedora and Debian web servers in the past and both
> seem
> > > to drag their feet when it comes to keeping up with the latest
> releases.
> > >
> > > Also, I've noticed that InMotion is offering a really cheap VPS but I
> > > haven't used them in the past. Has anyone here used them?
> > >
> > > http://www.inmotionhosting.com/vps-hosting
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