tl;dr What is the best Linux distro for a sever for a small financial corporation?
I'm opening a mortgage brokerage firm in the US this year. This is a very small yet highly profitable business, at max we may have 4 employees, so nothing too enormous. Before I open my firm, I've been undertaking studying everything possible related to IT, servers, sysadmin duties, etc, as I will be undertaking all of these responsibilities within my business.
I've been using and learning all about Linux for about 3 weeks off Ubuntu due to it's accessibility and noob-friendliness. I plan to feel totally comfortable in the OS before moving on to selecting distros based on functionality. From that point on, I'm going to have to purchase a designated server to host the web server, email server, etc on.
Michael Watson
get debian or centOS
Lincoln Peterson
Get red hat. Sometimes you really want to get help.
Nolan Reed
Zentyal or ClearOS.
Nathaniel Parker
Debian stable is a good server OS and will be pretty familiar if you've used Ubuntu before.
That said, if you try to do all the sysadmin work and don't know what you're doing, you're probably going to run into a lot of problems at first, and most likely it will be your full-time job for a while, so be prepared for that. You should at least find a good IT guy you can call in case everything catches fire.
Samuel Rodriguez
CentOS/Red Hat is the industry standard. CentOS is Red Hat without a subscription.
Alexander Sanders
Redhat if you want to pay a little for your software and get professional tech support.
Fedora if you want to pay nothing for your software and support it yourself.
They are both the exact same OS, literally on Red Hat you are just paying for tech support.
The NSA only uses Red Hat. That says something
Gabriel Smith
Almost. CentOS is very close to RHEL, but patches/updates come from the community. If you use Fedora, your patches/updates come from Red Hat.
If you want a free RHEL, go for Fedora, not CentOS
Jaxon Phillips
Red Hat all the way. If you're using this for a professional purpose then you'll want the professional assistance when you need it. I'm guessing you don't have have much experience with Linux if you're asking which distro to use, so if you're managing financial records then you should use a distro with support.
Oliver Sanchez
OP, im a current uni student with several professional certifications... CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Linux+, and Linux Professional Institute Level 1 Administration.
I have been managing personal linux servers for a few years now. If you want an experienced linux admin who is willing to work inexpensive (to support my education) you should contact me.
Daniel Green
This, do not fuck over your clients because you got in over your head.
You will need help at first, so you may as well make sure you have it available.
Noah Taylor
dont you know guys how much red hat supports costs??? are you that retarded? OP you can easily go with something free, like debian stable or something like that, and you can get free support from community, you are not doing something extremely mission critical to have commercial support from red hat.
Adrian Lee
OP, SEE: If you are not an experienced linux systems admin, you do not want to do this stuff yourself for a financial business
Luke Allen
>trying to get a job from a Sup Forums post
Austin Carter
>dont you know guys how much red hat supports costs??? it does get expensive... Im not ashamed
Nicholas Sullivan
If OP can't afford a couple grand a year for RHEL, they have no business trying to run a mortgage broker firm. That might sound like a lot to an unemployed student, but as a business expense it's practically nothing.
>you can get free support from community Stackoverflow is fine for personal usage and DIY sysadmining, but in a production environment, time is money. You literally can't afford to have your shit sitting offline while you google how to fix some strange error or hope someone sees your SO post. In a business, it's extremely valuable to have a phone number you can call and have someone knowledgeable fix your shit in minutes or hours.
>you are not doing something extremely mission critical Running your business's server software is definitely mission critical.
>Im not ashamed It reeks of desperation, which is a huge red flag when making hiring decisions. Besides, if OP has any sense (which is debatable) they wouldn't even think about putting their critical business infrastructure at the hands of some rando on a chinese cartoon website.
Jeremiah Lewis
> they wouldn't even think about putting their critical business infrastructure at the hands of some rando on a chinese cartoon website. Ill fill out a resume like everyone else.
Nicholas Hall
I'd go with CentOS or Debian Stable.
Asher Bell
lmao rhel license ís more expensive than a windows license They even outjewed microsoft
Noah Wilson
Debian stable
Nathan Lewis
GNU+Linux
William Carter
>lmao rhel license ís more expensive than a windows license >implying Windows is better than RHEL The NSA uses one but not the other. Guess which one it is and why
Jaxon Sanders
Solus. It's like a good ubuntu.
Josiah Martinez
>The NSA uses one but not the other. Guess which one it is and why US military is the largest investor in Red Hat I doubt this is mere coincidence
John Richardson
Linux....small business.
Get Windows you dense Fuck.
Kayden Miller
I'm assuming you're going to be using Calyx Point or some other origination software and that means Windows.
>former senior LO and Alt-A/Subprime Account Exec here.
Been out of the mortgage biz for 12 years now so shit may have changed.
Wyatt Russell
>US military is the largest investor in Red Hat >I doubt this is mere coincidence Its not. Us Military almost exclusively uses either Red Hat Linux or LynxOS (a specialty Real-Time operating system used for especially high speed applications such as missile defense systems or the AEGIS targeting system)
Isaac Morgan
windows or debian stable
Ryan Taylor
>Calyx Point that can be WINE'd. no need for windows and its bloat
Evan Powell
Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
From my experience working with financial software most of the people you'll be dealing with will want windows xp or osx. Kubuntu has absolutely everything a linux system needs and has - as you said 'accessibility and noob-friendliness'.
As you grow your business you'll need a device management system if you're ever going to comply with any data laws in the us or uk. Cannonical has the only serious one for Linux so Ubuntu is your only choice.
If you want a designated server go with AWS or Azure cloud because again, you'll need security and scalability.
Luis Nguyen
if there's an issue they won't support you at all.
"Calyx does not support the operation of Point or any data hosted on a storage device and RAID Arrays, or the operation of Point on the following networks:
Novell networks Linux environments Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows ME OS/2 UNIX Any thin-client networks such as Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Services"
Elijah James
>I've been undertaking studying everything possible related to IT, servers, sysadmin duties, etc, as I will be undertaking all of these responsibilities within my business.
If this isn't bait, then you're a fucking idiot.
Those are professional duties performed by people with years of relevant experience.
Enjoy getting your shit hacked and losing everything. Luckily, this is just some fantasy that someone posted on Sup Forums.
Kayden Harris
>If you want a designated server go with AWS or Azure cloud because again, you'll need security and scalability.
> US-based 'cloud' service > security
Pick one.
Samuel Sullivan
I'll take the US-based 'cloud' service.
Juan Jackson
>Hey guys I have no clue about how linux works but I'll be relying on a linux server for my business and I'll be maintaining that server which the business will rely on. What distro should I choose?
You should choose to get someone who knows what they are doing to set everything up and fix it when it goes to shit.
Think about it this way. Time is money. In the half a day that it could take you to fix something a sysadmin can do it in 20 minutes or less.
David Mitchell
Only large businesses use linux. Everybody knows that.
James Robinson
>debian Uhmm, Debian security is horrible these days. I would not recommend this.
Jonathan Thompson
Gentoo. Not joking, it is the most performance-oriented distribution and works around 30% faster than standard Ubuntu/Debian with a number of fixes. Also, consider buying Power8 server if you really care about your sensitive data security.
Jace Hernandez
First thing you do when connect a Linux-driven server to Internet is set up a firewall, software-based (iptables), and also a hardware-based military grade solution (Cisco, Novell).
John Allen
Install Gentoo.
Asher Brooks
Expand on this
Isaiah Smith
It sounds like you're taking your business seriously so you need to ask in a serious place.
Try reddit.com/r/linux or reddit.com/r/sysadmin
You'll only be trolled here and if you take any advice seriously, your business will suffer.