For me it doesn't have to do with cost. It has to do with I've used RedHat Linux since 1995, then RHEL, then CentOS. And all this time I've used some form of RedHat or derivative on all my servers. I prefer to stick with what I know.
Also, you'll notice that the majority of pre-packed Control Panel software is written for RPM based distro's. And if you're looking for webhosting, go to www.cyberbite.com -matt On 9/6/07, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > CentOS seems to be doing really well in the hosting business these days, and > even for people who would normally have used Windows or OSX on the hosting > previously, are now looking at using CentOS. And I thought it would be nice to > have a section on the wiki about exactly why that is. > > Not having any direct connection with the hosting business I was wondering if > people here could help me out a bit and let me know why they think CentOS is > good / bad as a platform in this market segment. > > I suppose that would include dedicated hosting, VPS hosting, Shared / Virtual > hosting, and even high performance grid hosting that a few people seem to be > offering these days. > > Once we have some material here in this thread, everything will go online at > the > wiki ( with due credit to all contributors ). > > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
