# Best Linux Distro for Rails App?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 30, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-linux-distro-for-rails-app/180864 "2009-12-30T19:21:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-linux-distro-for-rails-app/180864/1 "2009-12-30T19:21:13Z")

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After a bad experience trying to get even the simplest Rails  
application running at Lunarpages, I’m moving to Slicehost. Does  
anyone have an opinion as to which of their Linux distros to use for a  
fairly high-traffic Rails site? They offer CentOS, Debian 5, Fedora  
(10 to 12), Gentoo, Red Hat EL 5, and Ubuntu (8 and 9).

While we’re on the subject, does anyone have any opinions as to the  
relative merits of Slicehost versus Amazon WS?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robert)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-linux-distro-for-rails-app/180864/2 "2009-12-30T19:56:09Z")

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Hi Robert,

I use two separate distros at slicehost for my sites. I use CentOS and  
Ubuntu. I found their documentation and setup procedures for Ubuntu  
easiest to deal with and preferred Ubuntu because I like using apt-get  
versus yum. It really comes down to what distro you are more familiar  
with. CentOS is great for people that use RedHat and Ubuntu is great  
for people that aren’t all that familiar with linux and need more  
step-by-step guides.

You can’t go wrong with either though and slicehost is a great provider.  
If you don’t like slicehost, you could go to heroku which has a beta  
cloud setup now where you can build your app in the cloud or import your  
app into the cloud. I’m still not happy with the beta app for heroku  
although it has a lot of promise in the future.

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**Author:** ![robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@robert](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robert)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-linux-distro-for-rails-app/180864/3 "2009-12-30T23:49:56Z")

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Robert wrote:

> ```
> After a bad experience trying to get even the simplest 
> Rails
> application running at Lunarpages, I'm moving to Slicehost. Does
> anyone have an opinion as to which of their Linux distros to use for a
> fairly high-traffic Rails site? They offer CentOS, Debian 5, Fedora
> (10 to 12), Gentoo, Red Hat EL 5, and Ubuntu (8 and 9).
> 
> While we’re on the subject, does anyone have any opinions as to the  
> relative merits of Slicehost versus Amazon WS?
> 
> Thanks!
> ```

I would choose based on my own knowledge and experience with the various distributions.&nbsp; You will be managing it yourself so you will have to know how the system handles things and this range of systems have a variety of ways of configuring subsystems managing the details of a computer.&nbsp; Personally I would probably go with Ubuntu but that is because I have more documentation on that system and a fair amount of experience with the management of those systems.  
  
The kernel and most of the utilities will be about the same but how system admin works is a big variable.  

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