Advice on using Fedora with Plesk

[Snapdragon]

Right now I run RHEL 3 ES with Plesk 8.

I need more than one webserver, and I would like to start using Virtuozzo as well, plus make separate MySQL machines.

Is there any reason that I can't use Fedora - any argument why I should pay for ES 4 for each machine? I run a web hosting business and I started with RH 9, but then moved to ES 3, but now that I need more than one machine, I can't afford to shell out a ton of cash for licencing when I can't recover the cost.

Any suggestions?

[scott]

FC's are good if you're looking for the latest features, the down side is that they have a shorter life cycle, about 2 years. FC4 will go into Fedora legacy soon, once FC6 is out (in october). CentOS4/RHEL4 are pretty modern, and are comparible to FC4 in terms of packages (exception, FC4 comes with php 5), with a 5 year support cycle.

[Snapdragon]

At this point I'm looking for stability, I want to build a couple servers that I can run yum or up2date on once a week and not worry about conflicts, crashing, etc. The server I'm running now has been upgraded and patched to hell (and still runs amazingly enough). It's been through at least 6 Plesk upgrades, and I've learned alot since I started using Plesk and coming here, but it's time to split the load up and go into a little more "controlled" methods of patching/upgrading, etc.

[breun]

I'd say: go with CentOS 4 then.

[Snapdragon]

How much different is it from Redhat? Keep in mind that Redhat is the only linux build I'm familar with so far.

[jason|xoxide]

CentOS is RHEL with the branding removed.

[breun]

It's like they say on the 'About CentOS' page:

CentOS-4 is a freely distributable OS built from the source at:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/e ... i386/SRPMS

[Snapdragon]

Woah, I feel dumb now.