I've got a Drupal 6.19 site that I want to move to a Mercury based VPS. Trying to decide whether to do Debian 5 or Ubuntu 9.10 (if that is a stable Ubuntu).

Can't do the latest Ubuntu because I need PHP 5.2 for some modules.

Any comments appreciated!

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kyler d. boudreau
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Go for debian, ubuntu 9.10 support ends in april.

You could also go for ubuntu 8.04 which is supported until 2013 and has php5.2.4, debian has 5.2.6.

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Thanks for that info. have you seen any performance benefit of the 64-bit distros? I've got a site that will be at about 10,000 users doing a lot of searching within the site. Hence the reason for mercury.

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kyler d. boudreau

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Go with 32bit (most likely). And search Some questions have been asked many times

viewtopic.php?t=6355

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/s ... -vs-linode

viewtopic.php?t=5063

thanks! i did search here and drupal and google. but i posted the question too hoping to get the info.

for anyone else reading this, the 32-bit version seems to be the ticket unless you have a server with a ton of RAM, etc. each apache instance gulps more memory in the 64-bit version and benchmarks are showing the 64-bit OS to not be that much different which is odd.

Our hardware is way more advaned than the applications we have. Such a shame.

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kyler d. boudreau

theatereleven.com

I would go with Debian Squeeze- it's going to be stable shortly, and will save you from having to upgrade in a bit anyway.
I see that there isn't a prebuilt option from Linode- so I would install Debian 5, then do a dist upgrade to testing (squeeze).

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The OP says he needs PHP 5.2.