5.3 STABLE for production server?

[Ísak Ben.]

In my experience 5.3 is quite good for production and you should not be afraid to use it instead of 4.X

I have been running a few 5.3 boxes in production for a while without problems and im planning to replace 
the rest of my servers with 5.3

--
Ísak Ben,
http://www.isak.is

---------- Original Message -----------
From: PawelG <pawel at mcmail.pl>
To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Sent: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:08:55 +0100
Subject: 5.3 STABLE for production server?

> Hello,
> 
>  I've been using 4.X branch for production servers. Yesterday I bought
>  box in datacenter with RAID 1 controller and operators in DC set up FreeBSD
>  5.X for me (instead 4.X i asked) because they have troubles with set up 
> RAID controller runing on 4.X.
> 
>  I have two options:
> 
>  Posting with Datacenter and try to convince them to make RAID 1
>  running on 4.X (I found on freebsd-hardware list that 3ware 7006-2
>  controller runing fine).
> 
>  or
> 
>  Runing production server (Apache, Mysql, Postfix + ATA RAID 1) on 5.X.
> 
>  I would like to know your opinion about 5.3-STABLE for this
>  pourpose. I googled some and found that it isn't good idea but all
>  those opinions was pretty old (related for ex. to older BETA version
>  of 5.X branch)
> 
>  kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> Pawel
> 
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