Ubuntu Server Questions

**thunderclap** · March 2nd, 2011

I have two questions regarding Ubuntu. I currently help admin a site on a VPS running what looks to be Ubuntu 5.12. We have to move to a new VPS service next month and they offer several different OS's (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) and I want to stick with Ubuntu. The service offers pre-install of Ubuntu 9 or 8 (32-bit or 64-bit). I'm going to go with at least version 9, but am curious if I can (or should) upgrade it to version 10.10. Thoughts? Also, after a lot of research, it seems most people recommend using the 32-bit version to keep memory usage to a minimum, yet the Ubuntu site recommends the 64-bit version. What are your thoughts?

So, to paraphrase, should I use Ubuntu 9 or should I upgrade to 10.10, and should I use the 32-bit or 64-bit version?

The VPS specs are: 1024MB RAM, burst memory to 2048MB, 60GB storage, CPU burst at 4 cores @ 2.67GHz each. The site is primarily a vBulletin CMS & Forum site with some WP, but we are going to be migrating the WP stuff to Joomla soon.

**garfonzo** · March 2nd, 2011

Go with 10.04 if possible as it has long term support. That is all I can answer with my knowledge set.

**stlsaint** · March 2nd, 2011

if ubuntu server 10.04 is offered go with it and 64bit! cheers

**wormyblackburny** · March 2nd, 2011

RedHat......

**rbishop** · March 2nd, 2011

I say go with 10.4LTS. That is what I run on my servers, and never had a problem with it. I have had a few problems with my 10.10 desktop, but those were probably me just messing with stuff.

**SeijiSensei** · March 3rd, 2011

If your provider doesn't offer a 10.04 or 10.10 image, you'll be faced with upgrading the distro. If you'd like to avoid that, my VPS provider, Linode, has Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 images available.

**HugoSerrano** · March 3rd, 2011

It's like they say, go to 10.04 LTS!

Regards!

**bsntech** · March 3rd, 2011

Yep, 10.04 64-bit. If you are not running 64-bit, you won't be able to address over 4 GB of memory.

Running 10.04 on my systems and they are running very well. I was running 8.04 up to a couple of months ago - then upgraded to 10.04.

Brian S.
http://www.bsntech.com/bsntech-blog-...-mainmenu-281/