# Most common production OS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/most-common-production-os/92438>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 19, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/most-common-production-os/92438 "2007-04-19T15:05:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blakeage)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 3:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/most-common-production-os/92438/1 "2007-04-19T15:05:39Z")

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What OS do you deploy to? What is your average uptime? What database  
are you using?

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**Author:** ![blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blakeage)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/most-common-production-os/92438/2 "2007-04-19T16:36:05Z")

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On 19 Apr 2007, at 15:05, Blake M. wrote:

> What OS do you deploy to? What is your average uptime? What database  
> are you using?

Ubuntu Dapper Drake, Apache 2.2, mongrel cluster, MySQL 5. I haven’t  
rebooted my server since we first started it up six months ago.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

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**Author:** ![blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@blakeage](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blakeage)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/most-common-production-os/92438/3 "2007-04-19T16:49:07Z")

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Windows Server 2003 and Ubuntu. Using IIS + Mongrel on Windows, using  
nginx

- mongrel on Ubuntu. (ducks to avoid flying objects from the Windows  
haters)

Ubuntu is much better. Windows is something you should do only if you  
have  
to… it’s not bad, in fact it can be very stable… but it’s much  
slower in  
terms of requests / second.