Arch Linux as a server: advantages and disadvantages?

Hello,
I am about to create a hosting server for a great number of websites. Since i never actually did it myself it will be relatively new to me. For that reason I want to use Arch distro because I like it, understand it and have most experience with it.
I wanted to hear opinions why Arch is suitable and why not for a server machine. Also, maybe someone could recommend other distros that are better fit for the job (provided there are any)
Thanks!
Last edited by Tsynique (2010-11-12 16:16:32)

Short: CentOS is a pretty popular choice but I have no experience with it. You will need to make sure you have the latest security updates while also making sure that your keeping a good availability(up time), which could be a problem with Arch Linux.
Long: Security updates and system up time/availability. Making sure you have the latest security updates may effect your server's availability. This can be a problem if you have paying clients as the updates may break stuff. Arch Linux doesn't have an official security team but there are some community efforts underway. Take a look at the wiki under security, firewalls and sysctl.conf hardening. Also keep your eye are ArchServer. I use Arch Linux on my VPS but its only been for hobby stuff so far. As I've been getting closer to relying on my website professionally I've been considering changing to a different dist. of Linux; the problem is I'm most familiar with Arch Linux, don't want to go back to Slackware and I'm not happy with the way Ubuntu does certain things[init system, sudo/root setup](I maintain an Ubuntu LAMP setup for our Intranet).

Similar Messages

Singl/Multiple Server Oracle 10g DB and AS- Advantages and DisAdvantages

Hi Friends,
I am using Application1 using Oracle 10g Application Server and Oracle 10g database.
Now i planned to use Application2 using Oracle 10g AS and Oracle 10g DB
I need to know what will be the Advantages and Disadvantages if i have the schema for Application2 in the existing Oracle 10g DB / having it in another Oracle 10g DB Server
sameway what will be the advantages and disadvantages if i have the Application2 regsiterd in existing Oracle 10g AS(Multiple OC4J Instance) / having it in another Oracle 10g AS Server.
Regards

To start the list, for me some of the advantages are:
Same DB:
- less overhead and wasted CPU Cycles (therefore potentially lower license fees)
- easier maintenance (backup, recovery)
- easier tuning (fewer conflicting external environments asking for same resources)
- Oracle is designed for this, allows use of Resource Manager
- technically RAC is a clustered 'same DB'
Same AS:
- less overhead and wasted CPU Cycles (therefore potentially lower license fees)
- easier maintenance (backup, recovery)
- easier tuning (fewer conflicting external environments asking for same resources)
- Oracle is designed for this, use AS clustering
Different DB:
- separate maintenance (patch, upgrade) cycles for different SLA
- easier tuning (isolate tuning to one app)
- easier security (most developers have no idea about Oracle security and make merge impossible)
Different AS:
- separate maintenance (patch, upgrade) cycles for different SLA
- easier tuning (isolate tuning to one app)
- easier security (most developers have no idea about security)

Advantages and disadvantages for Server/Router as a gatekeeper

Hi all....
What are the advantages and disadvantages for using a server(such as Sun Solaris server) or a Router(such as 3640) as a gatekeeper?
Thanks a lot.
yytellmey

HI ALL I have some problems with CiscoWorks SyslogAnalyzer and need help. I have configured syslog on my switches/routers and directing it to the ciscoworks server under solaris. Any thoughts?
I'm also looking to purchase a refurbished Sun Fire V880 or V480 Server, including some used Cisco Routers & Switches from our local Sun & Cisco Reseller, MCA Computer Corp. Does anyone have any experience with this company www.mcac.com?
thanks

Advantage and Disadvantage of user login ID

Dear SAP expert,
I need some advice whether to use "employee no." or "name" to create SAP login.
What is the advantage and disadvantage of using employee no. ?
Thanks.
Rgds,

Hi Nitin,
A view can be thought of as either a virtual table or a stored query. The data accessible through a view is not stored in the database as a distinct object. What is stored in the database is a SELECT statement. The result set of the SELECT statement forms
the virtual table returned by the view. A user can use this virtual table by referencing the view name in Transact-SQL statements the same way a table is referenced.
For more information about the advantages and disadvantages of views in SQL Server, please refer to the following two articles:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/10575/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-views-in-sql-server.aspx
http://www.toadworld.com/platforms/sql-server/w/wiki/10274.views-advantages-and-disadvantages.aspx
Regards,
Katherine Xiong
Katherine Xiong
TechNet Community Support

Advantages and Disadvantages of Applet over JSP/servlet

Can some one please let me know what are the major advantages and disadvantages of using Applets over JSP/Servlet technology?

Well, a servlet / jsp is generated on the server, an applet on the client side. That's the most important difference.
Appelt's usually are for little applications like games and stuff, you can run in a browser.
Servlets are for dynamic pages, for example database-viewing and stuf...

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of OC4J ?

Hi,
I want to know what are the advantages and disadvantages of OC4J server .
Can anyone tell me please..
Regards,
Ajay

simple, reliable, extremely fast and low cost of development: re-start takes 10 - 15 seconds. Its disadvantage may be less flexibility in configuration then heavy-weight Weblogic

Advantages and disadvantages of SOAP over Http

Hi!
Can any one explain about advantages and disadvantages of SOAP over HTTP.
Thanks
Sreenath

Hi,
Yes you can use RMI to communicate to your soa suite server allthough i could not get it to work from weblogic 10.3, there is a conflict with certain other libraries. From any other 10.1.3 oracle application server there should not be any problem. The biggest advantage of RMI over SOAP is performance. The soap client also generates lots of logging which can not be disabled, ... i already logged a bug on that. The advantage of SOAP over RMI is its underlying HTTP protocol which is, in some cases, the only protocol allowed by network engineers to pass through firewalls.
Kind Regards,
Andre

Advantages and Disadvantages of Soap

Advantages and Disadvantages of Soap
Hi Firends,
Could you please tell me the Advantages and Disadvantages of using Soap adapter, i need them urgently.
Note: High reward points will be given for each answer

Hello
SOAP is an XML-based protocol for exchanging information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It was made for Web, a combination of XML and HTTP opens up new options for distributed data exchange and interaction in a loosely coupled web environment. SOAP is a technology that allows XML to move easily over the Web. SOAP does this trough an XML envelope for delivering XML content and specifying a set of rules for services to follow when they receive a SOAP message.
The fundamental change brought about by SOAP has been the ability to move data anywhere across the Web. Before SOAP there were only two main options for moving data between partners.
One was to build a wide area network spanning a broad geographic region and let the partners plug into it. This was the approach taken by EDI, which defined messages and protocols for data transfer but left the network details up to the partners. The result was a collection of networks that pretty much locked the partners in and made it difficult and expensive to reach out to other EDI networks and costly to bring in new partners.
The second approach for moving data between partners was to build a distributed object infrastructure than ran over the internet. This was the approach taken by Common Object Request Broker (CORBA), Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). The problem was that each had to decide on a protocol that could sit on top of TCP/IP and handle inter object communication. CORBA Chose Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), DCOM chose object Remote Procedure Call (ORPC), and RMI chose Remote Method Protocol (JRMP). While this approach reduced the need to share the same underlying network, the drawback was that CORBA could talk to CORBA, RMI to RMI and DCOM to DCOM, but they neither could talk to each other nor directly to the web except through special sockets that required adding extra layers to an already complex architecture.
SOAP the third option, combines the data capabilities of XML with the transport capabilities of HTTP, there by overcoming drawbacks of both EDI and tightly coupled distributed object system such as CORBA, RMI and DCOM. It does this by breaking dependence between data and transport and in doing so opens up a new era of loosely coupled distributed data exchange.
SOAP Carries an XML RPC tradition by defining an XML language for packaging arbitrarily XML inside an XML envelope. Although SOAP does not depend on HTTP, the momentum behind SOAP is attributable to the fact that HTTP will usually be used for transfer protocol for SOAP messages.
SOAP is a transport protocol similar to IIOP for CORBA, ORPC for DCOM or JRMP for RMI.
SOAP differs from CORBA, RMI or DCOM in several ways.
IIOP, ORPC and JRMP are binary protocols, while SOAP is a text based protocol that uses XML. Using XML for data encoding makes SOAP easier to read than a binary stream.
1) Because SOAP is text based, it is able to move more easily across the firewalls than IIOP, ORPC or JRMP.
<p2) SOAP is based on XML, which is standard driven rather than vendor driven. Potential adaptors are less likely to fear vendor lock in with SOAP. </p2>
The net effect is that SOAP can be picked up by different transport protocol and delivered in different ways. For example, when used with HTTP it can be delivered to a web server, when used over FTP it can be deposited directly into a file system and when used with SMTP it can be delivered to a user's mailbox.
Many companies exchange data between established partners is proving totally satisfactory way to leverage the benefits of XML and the web. In this scenario the required are an agreed upon schema either DTD or an XML schema, for XML data being exchanged and the SOAP server capable of handling the incoming XML as it arrives over the web. Details about what kind of schemau2019s to expect and who will check the XML conforms to the schema are decided offline by individuals participating in the process. On the software side senderu2019s needs to be involved in packaging their data in an XML document. For those companies already storing data in XML, this should require only minimal effort. If the stored XML data is not in the form required by the agreement, an XSL Transformation(XSLT) style sheet can be programmed to automate the transformation.
SOAP messages define one way data transmission from sender to the receiver. However SOAP messages are often combined to implement patterns such as request-response. When using HTTP binding with SOAP, SOAP messages can use the same connection as the inbound request.
Regard's
CHETAN AHUJA

Advantages and disadvantages of AQ

Our business wants to send a SMS alert for certian type of internet transactions. Users have to subscribe for the SMS services and for each SMS sent, customers will be charges acordingly.
We are thinking of using Oracle Advance Queuing (AQ) technology for the purpose. We are anlyzing it, wheather it will be feasible for our needs or not. If anybody have some whitepaper, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of this technology, please share it.
I don't want syntax and how to do it at this stage.
Thanks

HI,
This may give you the Oracle Stream AQ advantages and all its document
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/itss/docs/oracle/10g/server.101/b10785/aq_intro.htm
--Khaleel

Advantages and disadvantages of using Caringorm Framework.

Hi,
I am new to Caringorm framework.. In our project we need to make discussion whether to use Caringorm framework or a simpler architecture(flex à servicesàServer side) to use
Please let me know the advantages and disadvantages of using Caringorm framework from your experiences.
Thanks in advance.

hi,
Data about an application object is often distributed on several tables. By defining a view, you can define an application-dependent view that combines this data. The structure of such a view is defined by specifying the tables and fields used in the view. Fields that are not required can be hidden, thereby minimizing interfaces. A view can be used in ABAP programs for data selection.
More complicated views can comprise several base tables, the individual tables being linked with a relational join operation. If we dont specify the key fields, it takes time to fetch teh results.
Regards,
Sailaja.

Advantages and Disadvantages of JMS Queue over Fabric

HI,
I want to know both the advantages and disadvantages of using JMS queue over the default Fabric queue in B2B adapter.
Is it ok if I configure all my inbound and outbound transactions across all the trading partners to communicate with their respective SOA composite via the default JMS Queues(B2B_IN_QUEUE and B2B_OUT_QUEUE)?
Please advise.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Monica

Hi Monica,
But the size of the payload which I am using is unpredictable, it can differ from 1 MB to 40MB in future.This is not a problem. B2B can handle MB's of file if server has enough resources.
all other payloads greater than 3MB, it is getting faulted with the message:
"SAX Exception in translator. SAX Exception raised while trying to SAX Parse InputStream . Please make sure that the xml data is valid."Please remember that when B2B will find a large payload then it will write the large payload into the "Large Payload Directory" (defined in Administration--> Configuration) and pass it's reference to the middleware. So at middleware, you will not receive the actual payload but you will receive it's reference. Using File adapter sync read option, you may read the large file from "Large Payload Directory" at SOA layer.
If you are using PS5 (11.1.1.6) then you will see that for large payload, B2B passes the JMS header LARGE_PAYLOAD to the back-end so in your composite, you may build logic around this. If this header (LARGE_PAYLOAD) is not coming at SOA layer then payload will be available in the body and if it is populated then payload will be available in the "Large Payload Directory" and it's reference will be available in the message body.
Regards,
Anuj

What is the Advantage and Disadvantage of Pre-Compiled JSP

Hi All,
What is the advantage and disadvantage of using pre-compiled JSP

Pro:
By pre-compiling your JSPs you don't need a java compiler on the server - just a jre.
The result? No java compiler on the server means a potential security hole patched - people can't just write and deploy jsp's willy nilly on the server.
You KNOW that all your JSPs compile before you visit them - because you have compiled them all :-). It won't fail because of a stupid spelling miskate that prevents compilation. That doesn't mean they will run without error of course...
Con:
Compiling the JSPs ties them to a particular server - unless you take the runtime along with them.

Advantages and disadvantages for SRM on one client with ECC

Dear SAP gurus,
We are evaluating the use of SRM on one client with ECC. Is there a paper spesifally discuss the advantage and disadvantages of having this deployment option?
Best regards,
John

Hi
check this link
SRM Server as an Add on to ERP 2005
Advantages
1) one backend for SRM and ECC6.0
Disadvantage
1.Sourcing scenario cannot be implemented.
2.It does not support multiple backend system.
Regards
G.Ganesh Kumar

Advantages and disadvantages for having the central purchasing organization

Hi all,
Cud neone list out the advantages and disadvantages of having central purchasing organization.
and what is the best practice of selecting the puchasing organization.
Thanks

Hi
Cud neone list out the advantages and disadvantages of having central purchasing organization.
Rather than asking for the advantages and disadvantages it will be helpful if u see why the functionality of having the purchase organisation centrally and decentralised has been provided in SAP. I hope u have seen the help file in ur SAP about purchase organisation.
The point u can note down which will be of importance is Each purchasing organization has its own info records and conditions for pricing. if u go for the centralised purchasing organisation say in company code u have three plants and purchasing organisation is for all theree plants, then the conditions and inforecords holds for all the thrre plants. If u go for the decentralised say for each plant different purchse organisation then each plant has its own inforecords and conditions. This is upto the business requirement which u should select.
Similarly u can use this logic for the following cases
Each purchasing organization has its own info records and conditions for pricing.
Each purchasing organization has its own vendor master data.
Each purchasing organization evaluates its own vendors using MM Vendor Evaluation.
Authorizations for processing purchasing transactions can be assigned to each purchasing organization.
All items of an external purchasing document, that is, request for quotation, purchase order, contract, or scheduling agreement, belong to a purchasing organization.
The purchasing organization is the highest level of aggregation (after the organizational unit "client") for purchasing statistics.
The purchasing organization serves as the selection criterion for lists of all purchasing documents.
Here u can apply the logic and see how centralised and decentralise purchasing organisation effects. Whethe u want the data should be applicable for all plants then go for centralised if not go for decenralised.
what is the best practice of selecting the puchasing organization.
I think there is no best practice as such and it depends on how u r company business works.
I welcome the comments from experts if there is any best practice.
Thanks
Ravi

Advantages and Disadvantages of calling java from PL/SQL

Hi,
I have one doubt. What are all the advantages and disadvantages of the calling java from PL/SQL?
In actual scenario the java program will be in the Application server side. It will do the operation and it will store the result in Data base. But in this case (calling java from PL/SQL), we are loading the java program in the Data base and it is doing the operations.
I have seen many posts are coming regarding loading jar files into the database. Actually the jar will deploy in to Application server. Is there any difference instead of keeping in the Application server side?
Then I have read,
advantages:
-> java having lot API's. so PL/SQL can use that API's.
-> if we can not do anything in PL/SQL. we can do it using this mtd(calling java from PL/SQL).
My questions:
-> could you explain what are all the things we can not do but we can do using "calling java from PL/SQL" method?
-> is there any other advantages?
Disadvantages:
-> the performance is very slow in calling java from PL/SQL.
My questions:
-> Then why others are loading java files and jar files into database?
-> is there any other disadvantages?
Could you explain about this one? It will be more helpful to others also…
Regards,
kk

Hi,
You can read the free first chapter of my book @ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555583296/ (see details then Excerpt)
Kuassi http://db360.blogspot.com

Arch Linux as a server: advantages and disadvantages?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for