12 mo. ago • 83%

How is your experience with Fedora as a server?

Please share your experience with me and others.

I'm intened to give it a try on my next server coming next year.

Please DO NOT COMPARE with other distros. I didn't ask what is better or the best for a server.

Thanks

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Not trying to be a jerk but if you don’t want any comparisons then how are you going to get any actual feedback other than “it’s good” or “it’s okay/bad.”

Don’t get me wrong I run fedora as my main server and love it. That’s about all I can say since I can’t give you a comparison of what it’s like vs Ubuntu, CentOS, or windows.

Then again most of my main services I run are all docker containers now but that runs about the same on almost all servers.

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- You got a point. But I was afraid of some unhelpfull childish comments starting an unusefull debate.
  
  Of course any well-intentioned comparison would be very appreciated.🙏
  
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  Good point. I could totally see a "why would yo use that instead of this.." kind of comments.
  
  Okay so Fedora was one of my first Linux experiences so take what I say with a grain of salt. I really like it and its package manager is nice. A lot of the same features can be found in other distros just using other tools. The way it does web hosting is something I like (or liked) a lot but almost all of that is now down using Docker for me.
  
  The one thing to keep in mind is that the community forums are not as user friendly as Ubuntu. At least this was the case 10 years ago when I was new. There were a lot of "how hard is it to search for httpd in the forums" when the question was similar to "how do i setup web hosting."
  
  The one thing that is not server specific but I would recommend is that you look into docker and portainer if you have not already. That is how I host almost all of my services now. Using nginx proxy manager (nginxproxymanager.com) as the front end for almost all of has made my life a heck of a lot simpler. Good luck with trying out your new server.
  
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As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I've run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:

The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current

Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application

The system was set up by a client's family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or

Some combination of the above

I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven't run into that in practice.

Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don't end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don't get that with Fedora.

Edit: To be clear, I saw all of those things on other distros as well. I just can't remember a single Fedora instance where I didn't see one or more of them.
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SeLinux policy's !!!!!!

Oh no that's fine, now.

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Pffft Linux? Ditched that years ago for W10 bro, catch up

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- I was using Win till 11
  
  Win10 and 11 are a total failure.
  
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