Comment on How is your experience with Fedora as a server?
Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
As a professional sysadmin for a (not just web) hosting provider, any time I’ve run into Fedora on a server it has been an indication that:
- The client was running something obsolete and unmaintained that would not survive an update. This would generally be a version of Fedora 2-12 versions behind current
- Overtime was in my future as rolling updates broke their business a critical application
- The system was set up by a client’s family, friend, or other nonprofessional sysadmin who would (or could) no longer support the rickety framework they had built on top of it, or
- Some combination of the above
I could imagine it working in a devops environment at a company with a real development team that also happens to understand what sysadmins are for, but haven’t run into that in practice.
Seriously though, for a server you need something where security updates don’t end the day a newer version is released. LTS releases and security backports matter for stability, and you don’t get that with Fedora.