The only mainstream ISP I know that runs Debian is Dreamhost. The dedicated servers I've seen recently are mostly Fedora or CentOS, for example Godaddy dedicated runs Fedora Core 4. Aplus dedicated are Fedora Core 4 by default. One reason is that the hosting control panels historically did not support Debia, and were biased towards RedHat/Fedora/CentOS. I am talking about things like Plesk, cPanel and WHM. While Plesk say they support Debian, cPanel does not: http://www.cpanel.net/products/cPanelandWHM/linux/sys_requirements.htm Web hosts want a self serve environment to minimize cost, and the control panels go a long way towards that. Dreamhost have a home grown panel, so that may be why they can afford to do Debian. On 3/25/07, Larry Cannell <larry@cannell.org> wrote:
Based on my limited research Debian runs on a significant portion of Internet web servers (more than Fedora and CentOS combined).
From Strong growth for Debian<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debian.html>(Netcraft, December 2005): "Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December. Debian 3.1was 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."
In this survey Debian had 25% share. Fedora: 16%, CentOS: 1%.
However, this survey is a little over a year old. I am certainly interested in seeing research that shows Debian is not this dominate.
Larry
On 3/25/07, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com> wrote:
However, Debian is less widely in hosting environments as opposed to Red Hat and its derivatives (CentOS, Fedora).
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