what version of centos ?

[meeti]

Hi,


i want to install the centos for whm/cpanel.

can you recommend the stable version of centos for me?



thanks

 

[chopperb]

I use centos 5 with whm. No problems at all.

 

[cooldude7273]

5.1 would be best

 

[webofunni]

http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpwhm/cpanel11/sys_requirements.htm

http://www.centos.org/

 

[UBERHOST]

Another vote for CentOS 5 (or if you want to hang back a bit, 4.6 is a solid choice).

We 'wub' CentOS. :D

Rick

 

[troxalias]

I have centos 3, centos 4 and centos 5 on my servers. All are rock solid stable, with almost immediate updates as they are published from redhat and complete compatibility with RHEL. I vote for CentOS 5 on any new server with no no no hesitation at all.

 

[4u123]

Currently using 4.6 on 30 servers with no issues. One of the best decisions I ever made was using centos.

Did they do a centos 5 server cd yet ?

 

[cooldude7273]

Currently using 4.6 on 30 servers with no issues. One of the best decisions I ever made was using centos.

Did they do a centos 5 server cd yet ?

You can get one special made for cPanel at http://layer2.cpanel.net/

 

[handsonhosting]

Currently running about 25 servers with 4.x and 40+ with the CentOS 5.

VERY stable platform to run from. Haven't had any major issues.

 

[CoolMike]

You can get one special made for cPanel at http://layer2.cpanel.net/

Do you know what's the difference from this cd with the original one?

 

[cPanelNick]

CentOS 5 would definitely be favored over CentOS 4 as it has the newer db-4 library which is not as prone to locking deadlocks with spamassassin

 

[cooldude7273]

Do you know what's the difference from this cd with the original one?

No clue really, I have never had the opportunity to use it.

 

[cPanelKenneth]

Do you know what's the difference from this cd with the original one?

It auto runs our installer on first boot

 

[meeti]

It auto runs our installer on first boot

Hi,cpanelkenneth,

(a)by the way,the two

CentOS-5.0-i386-bin-DVD-cPanel.iso (Mon Oct 15 20:31:30 2007)
CentOS-5.0-x86_64-bin-DVD-cPanel.iso (Mon Oct 15 21:08:05 2007)

are combined " original centos+cpanel install " ?


(b)if i download it and use it to install centosm i do not need to install whm/cpanel additionally?


(c)i have a new server"xeon 3210 + two sata hhd + 4~8gb ram",

i want to run is for shared hosting server,

32 bit and 64 bit,which one will be better?



thanks

 

[cooldude7273]

(c)i have a new server"xeon 3210 + two sata hhd + 4~8gb ram",

i want to run is for shared hosting server,

32 bit and 64 bit,which one will be better?



thanks

Seeing as 32-bit architectures have a limit of 4GB RAM usage, you will need to use 64-bit CentOS if you plan to use 8GB RAM.

 

[cPanelKenneth]

Seeing as 32-bit architectures have a limit of 4GB RAM usage, you will need to use 64-bit CentOS if you plan to use 8GB RAM.

Not true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Linux 2.6 kernels have full support for PAE up to 64 GB of RAM.

 

[jarodlwk]

centos/cpanel dvd problem

i used the dvd to install centos and cpanel. however, after it finished installing centos, i noticed it run cpanel install which lasted only a few seconds. then it asked for a login. i reboot the box but cpanel did not start up.

i checked the services; named, httpd, etc. all not started up. did i miss anything?

 

[cPanelDavidG]

i used the dvd to install centos and cpanel. however, after it finished installing centos, i noticed it run cpanel install which lasted only a few seconds. then it asked for a login. i reboot the box but cpanel did not start up.

i checked the services; named, httpd, etc. all not started up. did i miss anything?

With our DVD ISO, cPanel/WHM installation commences on the first reboot. If that installation never began, you may wish to install it using the instructions provided at the bottom of our installation guide:

http://www.cPanel.net/install.html

 

[cPanelNick]

Not true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension

Linux 2.6 kernels have full support for PAE up to 64 GB of RAM.

Linux+PAE still has issues for apps that use > 3 gigs of ram. However if that isn't a problem for you (it isn't for most people) then you should be just fine with 32bit.