[rt-users] Advice for New Machine

[Gary Greene]

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> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of jul
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Advice for New Machine
> 
> 
> Ken Crocker a écrit :
> > John,
> >
> >
> >     Thanks. That's sounds like a good thing to keep in 
> mind. Anyone else?
> >
> Yes :
> 3 servers :
> 1) for RT ;
> 2) one for the DB (if you plan postgres or oracle) (I recommend Pg) so
> that you can tune it easily (sysctl in kernel will impact all the
> processes, and that's normal, but what suits DB does not 
> suits apache or
> other programs)
> 3) one for Backup (optional but a good idea)
> 
> 
> FreeBsd is as a good choice as debian ; I use both, and there are some
> interests in both. Don't even think of using RedHat for the 
> support since
> there is a 99% chance you'll install custom perl package that 
> will ruin
> your support.
> 
> Plan to tune apache  ;) and do a little perl.
> Have fun
> 
> Jul
> 

I would go CentOS for the machine if you're a RH person, since it is practically the same thing, and there are more than a few of us CentOS users running RT with our own RPMs.

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