Comments on: CentOS vs Ubuntu – Which One to Choose for Your Web Server

By: sabry almasry

sabry almasry — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 02:03:13 +0000

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By: Ankit Ahuja

Ankit Ahuja — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:15:42 +0000

I used to like Ubuntu, but over time i’m getting to realise CentOS is definitely the better business solution.

By: Nick Franklin

Nick Franklin — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:19:32 +0000

We have used Centos VPS hosting for many years along with cPanel for management. Last year (2019) cPanel dramatically increased the licensing costs and as of now (Aug 2020) does not support Centos 8.

Centos is still my preferred OS for hosting, but don’t want to invest in Centos 7 with cPanel and a short EOL, then in a few years have to upgrade to Centos 8.

cPanel will give me platform migration tools which are great and will save a ton of time, but I’m caught now as to whether to stick with Centos or look at alternatives.

By: Slothopher

Slothopher — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:02:05 +0000

Another case against CentOS: the epel managed PostgreSQL 12 on CentOS has an unusual directory structure when installed, making installing plugins a huge pain if eventually works.

By: Slothopher

Slothopher — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 01:58:34 +0000

A case that forces me to choose Ubuntu over CentOS: the newest git on CentOS is still 1.8.3.1 despite that the epel and extras repos are both enabled, which is decade old. GitLab runner just can’t use this version of git to perform CI tasks. On the other hand, the newest git on Ubuntu is 2.25.x, which works perfectly for GitLab runners.

By: nope

nope — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:48:40 +0000

basically: ubuntu is worthless.
for servers debian, for desktops mint – but never ubuntu.

By: Deepika

Deepika — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:08:41 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:13:33 +0000

Hey Gediminas,

thanks for that short overview and your perspective. As a server admin and IT pro i’d like to add an pro for CentOS (you might want to include it as a short side-note).

Because CentOS is Based on RHEL it is the cheaper go for any server hardware because it is way more likely to get specific manufacturer support. All these manufacturer develop support upon RHEL and so can be used with CentOS.

All the best,
Chris

By: atasa

atasa — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 01:07:20 +0000

In reply to Alexander Mirvis.

Thank you for your comment. It helped me to choose centos as servers for my client companies.