Thanks for your help. The choice for HPC can be more free. I prepare to try it in datacenter, for FTP first, and then web server, mail server and so forth. Of course, I still think it's better to use rhel or suse for database, CRM and others.
On 2014年02月20日 22:35, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:40:59 +0800 Franklin Wang wrote: >> I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me >> the experience about them? Thanks. > We have successful experience with Gentoo on both production servers > (someone call this area "enterprise", though I dislike such name) and > HPC setups. > > In short, > Procs: > - fine-tuned setups; > - really large choice of components; > - high-performance setups (especially rocks for HPC); > - reduced attack surface; > - nontrivial attack surface; > - large system updates easy (comparted to e.g. RHEL4 -> RHEL5 > migration); > - easier to add and maintain out-of-tree software. > Cons: > - much longer time for initial setup; > - harder to apply routine updates; > - poorly suitable for tasks like: "create me this new service ASAP > (for which you don't have prepared images), preferably yesterday". > Other notes: > - requires more qualified personnel to maintain. > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko -- skype:touch21st, Gtalk:touch21st, Yahoo/MSN:franklinwan...@yahoo.com, Xing/Linkedin:Franklin Wang
