Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side

[Wayn0 <wayn0.ml@gmail.com>]

Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
>    First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very 
> helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance.
>    For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly 
> adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have 
> special care with updates.
>    Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo 
> for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a 
> little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the 
> only issue when using Gentoo on a server.
>    Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a 
> secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. 
> Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible 
> since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they 
> will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, 
> which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?.

Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-)

Those things can be life savers!

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