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I've built my application. I think its good (who knows). Now I want to create a production environment. I've used godaddy for shared hosting and I want to look at setting up in their cloud environment. I want to go Linux since I have experience with redhat. I'm looking for recommendations for which flavor of Linux would be best. The current choices for godaddy cloud are archlinux 2016-09-08, centos 6.8, centos 7.2.1511, coreos 1122.2.0 (MoreOS), debian 7, debian 8, fedora 23, freebsd 10.2, ubuntu 14.04.5 and ubuntu.04.1. I've used debian many years ago and loved it. I run ubuntu 14.04 under parallels on my mac and like it but don't use it a lot. And I believe fadora is the free redhat which I have experience with. What has the communities experience been and what are your recommendations?
Thank You, Bob
That choice is really up to you because learning the idiosyncrasies of each distro takes time. The community tends towards familiarity with Ubuntu (latest version) for web servers. This is due to the historical usage of Ubuntu as the VM host with Laravel Homestead.
I would go with Debian. For servers I think ir would be best. Ubuntu more for every day usage
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