[TriLUG] debian in production

[Scott Lundgren]

Can someone give me +/-'s of running Debian stable in production? Most 
of my administrative experience comes from RH, Fedora, and smidgen of 
SuSE.

I'm tasked with providing an *AMP environment to expand our web hosting 
services to the university community my department serves. The caveat 
is that I'm only allowed to have repurposed sparc solaris servers. 
Since there is no web hosting control panel software that runs on 
Solaris, in lieu of providing fewer services with more administrative 
burden, I'd like to propose to my management that Solaris be removed 
and install Debian Sparc so I can enable private sector levels of 
hosting via a restricted configuration of cpanel for our users.

Hopefully providing this scenario illuminates what issues I should be 
aware of for this proposal.

Thanks,
SL