[geeks] This damn question again...

[Joshua Boyd]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:24:30PM +0100, Mark Benson wrote:
> I kinda get the impression from folk here that maybe I took a wrong turn 
> while picking the OS for our new server@$work. As I've said before my 
> experience is limited and I'm determined to get this right.

<snip> 

> Services required are:
>
> Rails
> MySQL
> Apache/PHP
> Samba
> Possibly mail
>
> Any further input regards OS? I do feel like a kid pestering you guys, but 
> I don't want to screw this up.

Solaris, all the way.  Consider using the Sun provided packages for all
of those applications, and you will have everything dtrace enabled for
easier performance tuning in the future.

Plus ZFS is great.

However, you may not need samba.  You can use it on Solaris, but
depending on your needs, the in kernal CIFS server may be better and
simpler.