Note that there is no technical requirement for domain names and web servers to be hosted by the same company (sometimes there are contractual requirements)

There is no contractual need for me to keep the domains with the host. My first websites were hosted elsewhere but didn't offer the facilities I needed so I moved to hosting with the same company with which I already had several domains. To be honest, I really could do with moving away from shared hosting as I have 9 significant business sites on there plus another 7 smaller businesses and numerous other domains which either redirect or have a holding page...

Looking at what I actually use, I can get the second VPS package up from the same host and pay the same money as the shared hosting gets me. I'm happy with their customer support (apart from not upgrading Perl of course!) so staying seems sensible. Disk capacity and bandwidth are sufficient and I imagine 1 Cores and 1Gb RAM would be enough.

This leaves me with the OS choice...
I plan to buy a refurbished PC and I'm thinking that an i5 3rd generation should be plenty good enough - high enough spec do you think? On to that I will install the same flavour OS as the webserver and then configure it in as much the same way as I can so I have a test platform to minimise any kind of critical problems.

The OS choices are:
- Gentoo64 (which I've never heard of!)
- FreeBSD
- CentOS 7
- Ubuntu 16
- Debian 9
- Ubuntu 18
- Debian 10
- CentOS 8
- Ubuntu 20

I have no information on which to base a decision so any advice would be extremely welcome...

In reply to Linux environment (was: Re^16: Recalcitrant placeholders) by Bod
in thread Recalcitrant placeholders by Bod

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