RedHat Enterprise Server vs. Fedora and RedHat 9

Is it worth the extra $20/month for RedHat ES?

[phaze]

We're about to upgrade to a dual AMD 2600 processor server with 2 gigs of memory (yippee!). They offer Fedora, RedHat 9 or you can get RedHat ES 3.0 for an extra $20 per month. Is it worth the extra 20? I've read discussions where you can supposedly get everything ES offers for Fedora.

The server is going to be used for some very network intensive tasks. Basically it'll be hosting a meta-search engine and run some rather CPU and memory intensive cron jobs simultaneously. We'll be running Apache 1.3.31 with mod_perl and mysql. Mysql gets hit the hardest and the 2 Gigs of memory is mostly for the key buffer.

Mark.

[bartek]

Fedora is somewhat experimental, RH9 no longer supported, so RHEL has been my choice for a while now. Updates are worth it imho, saves time and effort. Never had a software-related problem, which can't be said for Fedora (both 1 and 2). If you're comfortable around the system and like tinkering, pocket the $20, if not, (and you value your time) it's probably money well-spent.
Tip #1: Whatever you decide, check the hardware lists.

[Saleen34]

Try Centos. It is the Redhat Enterprise Code recompiled with There logo on it. Enterprise Source is still open source.
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