Is Apache 2.0 stable at this moment?

[vladibo]

Is Apache 2.0 stable at this moment?

 

[Newposter]

Been running it for months with no issues.

Newposter
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."

 

[siberian]

I run it on about 25 servers for the last year with zero problems. At least, no problems that were not present in the 1.3.x line

 

[RhythmAce]

I'm using 2.0.47, and at the moment, it seems stable. And since it is currently running on linux, I expect it to remain stable for many moments to come.

 

[Tracey]

Same review, on windows. Solid for about a year now also.

Tracey
Remember... True happiness is not getting what you want...

Its wanting what you have got!

 

[wlwoman]

RhythmAce - What are your plans when RH pulls out of RH Linux on the freebie end?

 

[siberian]

Move to FreeBSD

 

[wlwoman]

My server is co-located about 300 miles away, so if/when I have to switch, I need to do it quickly and without unnecessary fanfare to minimize downtime.

I'm still running RH 7.3, patched to date. What do you think would be the fastest, easiest switch?

 

[siberian]

I think any UNIX-like OS will do fine for you. There are a bazillion distributions of linux as well as the Net/Open/FreeBSD operating systems.

Fedora, the Redhat replacement, I hear is troubled and not super stable. I personally like FreeBSD but its just habit, been using it since '97 or so.

 

[wlwoman]

In addition to my 'real' server, I have a practice server at home. Maybe I'll try FreeBSD and see how it works out. Any words of advice?

 

[siberian]

Stay with the 4.x line, 4.9 just came out. There are releases of 5.x as well but thats pretty bleeding edge for a conservative guy like me.

I recommend downloading the bootable ISO's, burning them and letting it do the install. Its pretty painless.

The RPM equivelent in FreeBSD is the ports collection.

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

They come pre-installed. Its really nice.

GenToo linux is also super easy to deal with, I recommend it as well.

 

[wlwoman]

Thanks! Off to do some research on both!

 

[RhythmAce]

Hi wlwoman. I got rid of a couple machines and tried to run my servers on windows xp. It seems like for the two weeks I was running it on xp, I was tweaking things nonstop. At least once a day I'd see an error saying that something bad happened to apache and it needs to shut down. I couldn't take it any more so went back to linux. Rather than reinstall RH 9, I downloaded and installed fedora. It's been running now for almost a month and it's just like the good ol' days. I haven't noticed much difference between fedora and rh 9 though except they don't wait for things to be declared stable before adding it to the distro or updates. I did the up2date yesterday and had a fatal rpm error. BUT,,, it didn't tell me to shutdown apache so I didn't.

 

[wlwoman]

Thanks RhythmAce - I will also look at Fedora and see how I like that. With the practice server I can pretty much do some or all OS's and find what the easiest transition will be.