I have a question. Why did you decided to choose Debian/Ubuntu for hosting drupal?
Is there a cause for this decision or it's only for personal reasons?

Is Debian better for hosting drupal, or does it have better performance or easier setup or configuration or something?

Why not to choose centos? I think centos may use lesser memory than Debian in some situations. Is it correct?

This question is only for "drupal hosting" (like boa), that's why I'm asking this question here.

Thanks.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

IMO..Number one reason (Ubuntu release team is crazy):
http://drupal.org/node/1897018

Articles, like the link below, miss the fact that the Ubuntu release team folks are reckless when releasing patches in to LTS without proper regression testing:
http://serverfault.com/questions/389199/is-it-debian-really-more-stable-...

Ubuntu is built from Debian. There are only slight difference in the administration of it (Server). Ubuntu bills itself as a more user friendly version of Linux. Desktop is the only place this really makes a difference. Serious SYS Admins do not build production platforms on the latest server versions or desktop edition.

Peace,
Michael Clendening
(21 years building enterprise Linux/Windows platforms)

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hejazee commented

Thanks, but i'm talking mainly about performance and resource (ram, cpu) usage for drupal hosting.

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omega8cc commented
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It is mostly for historical reasons. Aegir was initially developed on a Mac OS X and then the core devs were mostly Debian power users, anarcat is even a Debian Developer. This resulted in Aegir tested and used mostly on Debian based servers.

We (Omega8.cc) are also using Debian exclusively on our servers, but by popular demand we have added also Ubuntu support in BOA.

Of course it is not a coincidence. Debian is really good for this purpose.

When the BOA project will be ported to Ansible, we will be able to add support also for other distros, like CentOS, Fedora and others.