Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

[Franklin Wang]

Thanks for your help. The choice for HPC can be more free. I prepare to
try it in datacenter, for FTP first, and then web server, mail server
and so forth. Of course, I still think it's better to use rhel or suse
for database, CRM and others.

On 2014年02月20日 22:35, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 07:40:59 +0800 Franklin Wang wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with gentoo server and cluster. So could you tell me
>> the experience about them? Thanks.
> We have successful experience with Gentoo on both production servers
> (someone call this area "enterprise", though I dislike such name) and
> HPC setups.
>
> In short,
> Procs:
> - fine-tuned setups;
> - really large choice of components;
> - high-performance setups (especially rocks for HPC);
> - reduced attack surface;
> - nontrivial attack surface;
> - large system updates easy (comparted to e.g. RHEL4 -> RHEL5
>   migration);
> - easier to add and maintain out-of-tree software.
> Cons:
> - much longer time for initial setup;
> - harder to apply routine updates;
> - poorly suitable for tasks like: "create me this new service ASAP
>   (for which you don't have prepared images), preferably yesterday".
> Other notes:
> - requires more qualified personnel to maintain.
>
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko

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