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I am about to migrate a server installation (one OS) to a newer hardware and wish to enable/use KVM. So the hardware is fixed (https://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex40) , now I got the dilemma of choosing an OS.

Functionalities I am expecting to be met:

  • Apache 2 (2.2.12 or later) or any HTTP-Server with SNI Extension
    • PHP 5
    • MySQL 5
  • KVM virtualisation
  • SSH deamon
  • Nagios capability for monitoring every vServer
  • Security updates for at least 5 years
  • Low overhead (usage of system ressources)
  • No licensing fee

The focus of the selected OS is, besides those basic features, to be stable (OS as well as repo packages) and long time supported (5yrs or longer).

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  • You only really have two choices here. Evaluate them both. Jan 30, 2014 at 18:17
  • SuSE!?! Right???
    – ewwhite
    Jan 30, 2014 at 22:13

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Any enterprise Linux distribution will work for you. You're not setting a high bar or standard. Red Hat/CentOS... Debian... Even Ubuntu can do this.

Otherwise, reference: How should an IT department choose a standard Linux distribution?

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  • Are you sure Debian would be up for the task. AFAIK its lifecycle for a supported version is 3yrs as actual version + 1yr as former version. Jan 30, 2014 at 17:32

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