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

[Nate Benes]

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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