Debian 5 vs CentOS 5.3

[Hyperz]

Simple question. I'm getting a VPS and I need to choose between these 2. I only have experience with Debian 5 and I know for a fact that it's a very stable and reliable distro. On the other hand I pretty much know nothing about CentOS. So, I need to know which one to pick for a small VPS.

Which one do you think is the better choice?
Also please provide valid arguments, not "this/that FTW!", thanks .

 

[desiboy]

Debian is the best OS for small /medium vps
for more details visit this
http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/yes-you-can-run-18-static-sites-on-a-64mb-link-1-vps/

go with lenny if you dont plan to use any panel
and centos 5.x if you are planning to use any control panel

 

[Hyperz]

Thanks for that link desiboy .

 

[Mac]

Personally I always go with CentOS, got used to it + it's compatible with basically every panel out there.

 

[Hyperz]

"it's compatible with basically every panel out there"

Debian isn't?

 

[desiboy]

Debain is compatible with all panels out there

 

[Mac]

"it's compatible with basically every panel out there"

Debian isn't?

I thought cPanel wasnt <_<

(officially ofcourse)

 

[Danny.M]

debian is not documented to run cpanel - but ive done it before


Go with debian, cant beat lightweight debian + lighttpd/fastcgi ^^


or possibly freebsd if you have the choice ports FTW

 

[trapboyjack]

When I first started using VPS's I went with the familiar Ubuntu distro on it, realized how "HEAVY"/ resource consuming Ubuntu was and decided to try out Cent OS, CentOS very stable and reliabe I fell in love with Centos hostinabox, the great thing about CentOS is theirs all sorts of support online related to/with centos and is pretty moderate with its consumption of resources, O BTW kloxo/lxadmin is a favorite of mine

 

[yais]

i always go for centos, comes down to personal preference.

 

[snowmanrene]

Have more experience with CentOS 5, is stable and reliable.
Used Debian 4 before, was a good "run for the money" (figure of speech, don't take it literal plz), only recently started using Debian 5 and so far it seems nice. A couple of other server admins don't like it though, they say it's crap compared to Etch.
I haven't used it that much to know anything substantial yet.

But I'd go with CentOS, as it all comes down to personal preference imo as yais said.

 

[Hyperz]

I eventually choose Debian. No regrets so far, fresh out of the box it uses 40-50MB RAM which is rather good.

 

[Danny.M]

I eventually choose Debian. No regrets so far, fresh out of the box it uses 40-50MB RAM which is rather good.

apache or lighttpd?

 

[Hyperz]

Out of the box neither are installed. But I did install lighttpd directly after logging in the first time. Lighttpd was using 0.6 MiB (the process).

 

[Whoo]

Had CentOS installed on my previous server while on all my newer ones I had I always chosen Debian. Way better IMO!

 

[Danny.M]

Out of the box neither are installed. But I did install lighttpd directly after logging in the first time. Lighttpd was using 0.6 MiB (the process).

Win! if you need any config help feel free to pm me ^^

 

[JmZ]

Debian is better than CentOS.
CentOS has quite a lot of standard "out of the box" packages though I think.

Either way, the best server would probably run Debian, Lighttpd or Nginx, MySQL, etc.

 

[desiboy]

I eventually choose Debian. No regrets so far, fresh out of the box it uses 40-50MB RAM which is rather good.

you can remove some unwanted things

 

[Hyperz]

CentOS has quite a lot of standard "out of the box" packages though I think.

Meh, bloat >.<. It's good that Debian doesn't have a lot of stuff pre-installed.
That way you can apt-get install just the needed packages.

 

[Dman]

I think Debian.