Item: CentOS Linux
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CentOS

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CentOS for all of our Linux hosting servers that is over 2000+ servers in production and about 70% of them uses different versions of CentOS its a great alternative to RedHat which charges licensing fees whereas CentOS is opensource and perfect for our and our clients' needs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Server Management
Web Hosting Management
Secure compared to Windows

Cons

Support for cloud and containers
Documentation is not comprehensive
Issues reported take a while to get corrected.

Return on Investment

No licensing fees
Secure environments
Easy to upgrade

Alternatives Considered

Ubuntu Linux

CentOs is the standard in the hosting industry when it comes to different versions of Linux OSs, it's almost an exact clone of Redhat so it fits in with every need pretty well as well as it being free to use as it is opensource. Ubuntu is a great desktop OS.

Other Software Used

Nagios, Windows Server, Fortinet FortiGate

Likelihood to Recommend

CentOS is well suited for Linux-specific operations, although you can run a VM on it and install Windows, it is best to use it has the native operating system. Where it's not suited for is for Desktop or any solutions where it calls for Windows OS. Over all CentOS can be used with alternative softwares that require windows.

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CentOS to save time and money.