I need to setup a basic no-frills LAMP server. The machine I'll be running it on is fairly old but was originally (about 6-8 years ago) some sort of enterprise server. I don't have the specifics ATM but it has 512MB of RAM and 4 processors (2 2-die Xeon).
What OS should I use? I was thinking of Ubuntu because of the wide-availability of how-to guides, but as I was researching I found guides claiming OpenBSD was the "paragon" of security for server OSes and that OpenSolaris/MySQL are the most "compatible" because Sun (and now Oracle) developed both.
The server will only be used for https requests coming to/from a BlackBerry application and making outgoing http requests to RIM's servers (for their PUSH APIs).
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I need to setup a basic no-frills LAMP server. The machine I'll be running it on is fairly old but was originally (about 6-8 years ago) some sort of enterprise server. I don't have the specifics ATM but it has 512MB of RAM and 4 processors (2 2-die Xeon).
What OS should I use? I was thinking of Ubuntu because of the wide-availability of how-to guides, but as I was researching I found guides claiming OpenBSD was the "paragon" of security for server OSes and that OpenSolaris/MySQL are the most "compatible" because Sun (and now Oracle) developed both.
The server will only be used for https requests coming to/from a BlackBerry application and making outgoing http requests to RIM's servers (for their PUSH APIs).
Which OS should I use?
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