The only mainstream ISP I know that runs Debian is Dreamhost.<br><br>The dedicated servers I've seen recently are mostly Fedora or CentOS, for <br>example Godaddy dedicated runs Fedora Core 4. Aplus dedicated are Fedora
<br>Core 4 by default.<br><br>One reason is that the hosting control panels historically did not support<br>Debia, and were biased towards RedHat/Fedora/CentOS.<br> <br>I am talking about things like Plesk, cPanel and WHM.
<br><br>While Plesk say they support Debian, cPanel does not:<br><a href="http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPanelandWHM/linux/sys_requirements.htm">http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPanelandWHM/linux/sys_requirements.htm</a><br>
<br>Web hosts want a self serve environment to minimize cost, and the control<br>panels go a long way towards that. <br><br>Dreamhost have a home grown panel, so that may be why they can<br>afford to do Debian.<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Cannell</b> <<a href="mailto:larry@cannell.org">larry@cannell.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Based on my limited research Debian runs on a significant portion of Internet web servers (more than Fedora and CentOS combined).<br><br>From <a href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debian.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Strong growth for Debian</a> (Netcraft, December 2005):<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">"Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web
servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December. Debian
3.1 was declared stable in July and it appears that both the
anticipation of this release becoming stable, and the release itself,
have generated new interest in Debian, after some years where it had
lagged behind its more active rivals. This growth is particularly
noticeable at some of the larger central European hosting locations,
including Komplex, Lycos Europe, Proxad and Deutsche Telecom."<br></div><br>In this survey Debian had 25% share. Fedora: 16%, CentOS: 1%.<br><br>However, this survey is a little over a year old. I am certainly interested in seeing research that shows Debian is not this dominate.
<br><span class="sg"><br>Larry</span><span class="q"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Khalid Baheyeldin</b> <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><div><div>However, Debian is less widely in hosting environments as opposed to Red Hat and its
<br>derivatives (CentOS, Fedora).<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br></span>-- <div><span class="e" id="q_1118b7b6a3e9530c_4"><br>Larry Cannell<br><a href="mailto:larry@cannell.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
larry@cannell.org</a>
</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a><br><a href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</a><br>Drupal development, customization and consulting.