Subject: To upgrade or not to upgrade?
From: Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan (fringe@shore.net)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 22:25:41 MDT
Hi folks. Got a question.
I have an old PowerMac 6100/66, 80 Mb RAM, 4.1 Gb HD running YDL 1.2.1 as my
web/e-mail server. It's not terribly fast, but it does the job, and is fine
for my purposes. I don't run Xwindows or a GUI on it, it's all done from the
command line, and is running well.
Is it worth it for me to upgrade?
I could just upgrade apache, php, etc to the latest versions, as the machine
is tuned now. Or, I could tarball, upgrade to YDL 2.0, reconfigure
everything, etc. This would take more time, and I'd have to tune again. This
is the only machine that I have with Linux, as a production server (unless
anyone wants to donate another one to me as a development server :) so I'd
like to minimize my downtime.
My thinking on this is if it ain't broke, don't fix it, as I'd rather not
have downtime. However, if 2.0 is going to give me great improvements over
1.2.1, I'd rather get the better performance, stability, etc. I do not need
to run the latest and greatest just because it's there, however.
So, what do you think? Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of
downtime that I should upgrade, or am I fine where I am? I'm interested to
hear opinions, but facts are better (such as "2.0 will give you an x% speed
boost over 1.2.1"). Thanks!
Sincerely,
Matt
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