Atomicorp

Well, you are in a bit of a difficult situation there.

You can't reallly upgrade in the conventional sense. What you would have to do is make a backup of your Plesk data and configuration, get a new OS installed from scratch on your server, then try to restore the backup. But this is full of problems and quite frankly I don't recommend it.

What I would normally suggest is that you rent/buy/whatever a new server with a fresh OS instal and get plesk installed, then use the Plesk Migration Manager to extract and copy all the data from your old server to the new one. Test to make sure all is well, then your DNS to point to the new server.

However, I think Plesk 9 is still missing the Plesk Migration Manager? I'm not sure.

As to which OS, I'd suggest Centos 5 since that's the latest, stable, fully supported OS and will be with us for many years to come. Using any flavour of Fedora is not a good idea for hosting.

The other option would be to make a backup of your Plesk data and config, get Centos installed on your current system from scratch, then restore the backup. Unfortunately this is a bit risky since there's always the possibility that something could go wrong with the backup or the restore. The way to get around that risk is to have the original hard disk removed (with all data intact), get Centos 5 installed on a new HD, then try restoreing the data. If it doesn't work then you just get the original hard disk put back.

Or something along those lines anyway....there are lots of options.

Faris.

As to which OS, I'd suggest Centos 5 since that's the latest, stable, fully supported OS and will be with us for many years to come. Using any flavour of Fedora is not a good idea for hosting.

For all our servers we use Centos because its a got a long support cycle and we know we can stick with a stead state for a few years and for all the commercial and opensource software we use on those boxes we don't have to worry that a major change to PHP, Apache, Java, etc. is going to break something.

We use Fedora for our desktops and we know we're going to have to blow them away every 12-18 months which is fine. They are desktops and we don't rely on our desktops as anything but dumb machines to get to the servers and shared services on the network.