Please share your experience with me and others.

I’m intened to give it a try on my next server coming next year.

Please DO NOT COMPARE with other distros. I didn’t ask what is better or the best for a server.

Thanks

  • Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I’ve run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:

    1. The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current
    2. Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application
    3. The system was set up by a client’s family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or
    4. Some combination of the above

    I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven’t run into that in practice.

    Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don’t end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don’t get that with Fedora.

    Edit: To be clear, I saw all of those things on other distros as well. I just can’t remember a single Fedora instance where I didn’t see one or more of them.