CentOS End Of Life

[theENIGMATRON]

Unsure if your aware CentOS 8 end of life is in December!!

They extended there support for Version 7 until 2024, not sure why they cut 8 so short!

Am pissed as i have two dedicated servers using Cent8!! The migration to a new server is going to be a fucking ball ache.

Ive known about it for a year, but was hoping they would change there mind or some migration to another platform!!

Oh well i got me work cut out over the next few months

[DJ-Daz]

Why centos and not debian? What about RHE? I assume you don't want Red hat because is so expensive?

[theENIGMATRON]

Licensing for RHE,
Debian is actually not as stable as Cent, so when it comes to servers Cent is the preferred
Simply put Cent is SOLID when it comes to stability.

I have started moving some small servers over to Ubuntu, but its never been my main choice for OS for servers for various reasons

The server this runs on it Ubuntu though

[DJ-Daz]

What are the server specs? I assume x86 of some sort. But these days who knows, there's a lot of choice out there now.
If it's x86, get debian up and running on another machine, with the sites and settings... then either dd the files to the server or create an img/iso file, then IN THEORY at least, it should just work... should, should in theory.

Look at me, telling you how to suck eggs.

[theENIGMATRON]

Yer i was considering a backup / restore method, But moving between OS some paths and versions change for MySQL Mariadb and MySQLi,
To avoid complications i am thinking of moving things over manually.

Server Specs:
4 vCore x 3.8 GHz (Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6)
32 GB
2 x 1000 GB Hardware RAID 1

[DJ-Daz]

[theENIGMATRON]

Finally starting to catch up with life.
Main task was the dedicated server. Got a new server for the same price (Near Enough) Man the specs have shot through the roof, because i moved away from Intel and went to AMD instead.
For the same price (Give or take £10/20)

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz (8 core(s))
32GB Ram
1T SSD (X2 for raid)

New Server
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 12-Core Processor (24 core(s))
128GB Ram
960GB NVMe SSD (x2 Raid)

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Such an improvement, Old Server could handle 16 Threads at once.
New server can knockout 48 Threads at once.

All because i went with AMD instead of Intel.

Goes to show if you buy from the dominating / market holder. You pay a premium price tag as they can charge whatever they want.


I considered that AlmaLinux as it was a OS coming up in replacement of the Cent, just didnt get a feel for it though.
I did want to use OpenSUSE as this is basically Cent using Red Hat and all the same official repos, but without the licensing.

But a couple of applications i need are not licensed or not supported on this operating system yet. But if they where i would of went down that route

[DJ-Daz]

It's entirely up to you, I actually have a spare PC sat doing nothing.
AMD 1600X (6 core, 12 threads)
16GB RAM
All the spare SSD's you could want (from 120GB up to 1TB)
250GB NVMe.
Nvidia GT 1030

50MB download
5MB upload
Yes that's megabytes not bits

No UPS though, and the internet isn't 99.99% up either.
But still...
It's there if it's needed.

Alternatively,
8 core 16 threads
16GB RAM
about 14TB and 1 NVMe

And again...
8 core 16 threads but 500mhz faster
32GB RAM
20TB (there about)
2x 1TB SSDs
4x NVMe's 500GB 2x and 2x 1TB

No UPS on any of them
50MB down
5MB up


4 x NVMe @ 1TB each

[theENIGMATRON]

This was for the company I work for, needs the direct connection for max speed. But 100% uptime as it hosts multiple API's giving a real-time figure across branches

I did a pre check (dummy run on the data migration)
Server to server transferring 875GB of data (uncompressed too)

It took about 10 minutes max, I couldn't see the transfer speed, but if I where to do the maths I think that's something like 1.5GB per second

[theENIGMATRON]

What you hosting on your beefy home servers then?

[DJ-Daz]

What you hosting on your beefy home servers then?

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