Atomicorp

Hi, its time for a nice new server and I thought this time I might try and do it properly

Anyone got any advise on the the best platform - once Plesk send me my renewal key I will be upgrading the old box to 8.01 and plan to migrate to the new box also running 8.1.

Whats the best OS to use? I am currently on FC2 and have the following options with the new server:

FC4
FC5
FC6
Debian 3.1
CentOS4.4
OpenBDS
FreeBDS

My inclination after a fair bit of lurking is CentOS4.4 but are there any issues I should watch out for?

Am I correct in thinking the correct proceedure would be

1. base OS install
2. sign up to ART, download and configure
3. use yum and the ART repositories to install the right version of plesk and add ons
4. get plesk up and running
5. install temp licence key (1 month migration key?)
6. run migration utility
7. update the thing everyday

any help and or pointers greatfully recieved

Yep that looks like a good plan. My recommendation would be to go with CentOS4, its got a 7 year life span, and all the support you'd normally get with Red Hat EL4.

I agree - CentOS 4.4 is the way to go.

One thing I've noticed, though, is that ART's psa-8.0 repository seems to have some date problems on a couple of the packages - I ended up with older packages that the system thought were the latest. I'd recommend downloading the PSA RPMs from SWSoft and installing that way, and using the built-in updater.

Yeah they dont make all the latest packages available unfortunately. Its still something I'm trying to tune around.

I'd recommend CentOS 4 as well. I'd advise against using Fedora Core. FC5 and FC6 are not yet supported by Plesk and the Fedora Legacy Project is about to kill itself, so effectively FC4 is already EOL. I mean, I like Fedora (I even run FC6 on my desktop), but it's pretty useless for Plesk servers because of its short life span.

Other than that, using RHEL/CentOS or Debian or *BSD is just a matter of taste probably, although I have a gut feeling that Plesk is usually working a little smoother on RHEL/CentOS. Maybe it's because support for Debian and others was added more recently.

The PSA demographics are most people run it on CentOS/RHEL 3 and 4 or FC2 (because of 1and1), thats around 90-95% of the user base. So you'll get the most scrutiny on that platform, and end-user feedback into the product.

Hmmmn, now I'm slightly stuck.

If I try yum install atomic-psa I get a bag full of dependency errors (such as tomcat4) but if i try yum install tomcat4 I get no match for argument.

If I try and use the Plesk installer there isn't one specific for 4.4 only 4.3 and that dumps out with a dependency as well - any-php-sqlite2 and again yum can't install that.

Anyone able to help me out?

atomic-psa is pretty far out of date at the moment. It's due for a major overhaul right now.