How to choose an operating system for a virtual private server (VPS)?

CyberAlchemist · Mar 1, 2016

Every time I chose a VPS I find difficult to choose an OS for my VPS. If my sites are PHP sites with MySQL databases then what operating systems will be good for My VPS?
CentOS 6
CentOS 7
Ubuntu
Debian

Which is more stable, secure and help my VPS run fast? why?

RDO Servers · Mar 1, 2016

CentOS is by far the most popular choice for web servers, but really any of those are fine.

Really it comes down to 2 factors:
1. What are you more comfortable using
2. Do any of the services your going to run, work better on a particular OS.

Localnode · Mar 2, 2016

CentOS also has a free web panel, think of it as a free alternative to cPanel; it's still new though and there may be security holes. There're other free control panels around as well, a lot will work on Ubuntu.

hmb-robert · Mar 4, 2016

I will suggest to use CentOS. If you are familiar with CentOS7 then go for CentOS 7 otherwise CentOS6 will be fine.

Generally managed VPS servers comes with pre-installed softwares like apache, mysql, php. So, once signup process completed you can start to use your server instantly.

vps9 · Mar 8, 2016

Choice of Operating system is depend on purpose of using VPS. I suggest CentOS would be fine for you.

How to choose an operating system for a virtual private server (VPS)?

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