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

[Kevin]

For the ultimate in update timeliness, do Linux From Scratch. Packages are
updated as soon as you want. Disclaimer: I've never done it myself, so I
can't verify the accuracy of this statement. But I don't see why not.
On Nov 3, 2014 8:52 PM, "Shawn L. Djernes" <shawn at djernes.org> wrote:

> If you really want to ride the wild side then go with Debian Sid (as in
> her who breaks his toys). Packages are pushed daily.
>
> ---
> Shawn L. Djernes
>
> > On Nov 3, 2014, at 13:03, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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