Hello,

I'm trying to move my site to a different hosting provider and I stuck at OS selection. Currently I'm using CentOS 6.3 with cPanel WHM and I'm not happy with that since CentOS has lot of known issues and fixes are coming very late.

The hosting provider suggested me to go with RHEL v6.3 for new server deployment. Can anyone let me know if your suggestions and possible experience regarding RHEL.

(I've to pay an additional $20 for RHEL!)

Any further help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

In my opinion, I'd stay on CentOS 6.3. I had no issues with 6.3 on my dedicated server. I've never used RHEL so I am unable to give any suggestions or opinions about it. CentOS 6.3 works fine with normal cPanel and WHM, and hosting your site with it. What issues (exactly) was you experiencing with CentOS?

Major centos issues also exist in RHEL. Fixes come down with delays-- Scientific Linux responds quickly but is not worth getting it to work with cpanel. Cloudlinux also fixes major things pretty quickly.

Worth the $20? I'd rather spend it on more hardware imo

The issues that I'm having are:

EasyApache rebuild won't complete properly. cPanel WHM update stuck at 95%. cPanel support told me that I've either an inconsistant image of CentOS v6.3 or OS reload/reinstall is not done properly according to cPanel recomendations.

My current hosting provider informed that they have a stable and latest version of CentOS 6.3 along with cPanel. They also told me that their automated provisioning service uses the same image.

I reloaded the OS more than couple of times and same thing happened. Each time I need to initiate a ticket with cPanel and they fixed it. However entire server is down several hours due to MySQL and other OS issues.

Then I had a thought to consider paid version of OS which is RHEL in this case. But I'm not decided at.

WHich version of CentOS are your guys running?

I am 6.3 with 6.2 kernel LOL
yeah I had nic/lan issue thats being addressed

http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/365905-centos-62-to-63-ugh/

I am 6.3 with 6.2 kernel LOL

yeah I had nic/lan issue thats being addressed

http://community.inv...s-62-to-63-ugh/

Do you have any issues with cPanel 11.32 on top of CentOS?

I am directadmin now but prior was running 11.32 (edge releases) on cent 6.2 with no issues.

CentOS 6.3 is RHEL 6.3, minus Red Hat trademarks, etc. They're built from the same exact source RPMs. I can think of no real advantage to using RHEL over CentOS, assuming you do not get access (or need, I guess) Red Hat support. You'll get security updates a little more quickly with RHEL, since CentOS depends on Red Hat to release them, but that is probably okay for your environment. And of course, it takes time for the CentOS volunteers to get new RHEL releases out the door, but again that's probably okay.

robert

Thank you guys for your suggestions. I think it's better to stay with CentOS, possibly reloading OS from CD instead of datacenter automated image. I can save $20/month by not going with RHEL.