[server-admins] CrossWire server

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys.  Wanted to run a few things by you guys.

We are starting to see IO errors in the logs from our primary hard disk 
on CrossWire.

We do backups of our important data, but this does not include our home 
directories.

If you have anything in your home directory that you'd like to backup, 
please consider pulling a copy off CrossWire or tarring it up on 
/backup.  I've left it mounted.  There is a userbackups/ folder there 
with world writable permission.


Since we're needing to get a new drive and since our OS release has gone 
out of support again, I guess it's time to update to something.

I would really like to get something more stable with longer-term 
support.  What do you guys think about moving to RHEL?  I know we could 
go with CentOS, but I've asked RH about low pricing for us as a 
non-profit, opensource development shop.  I'll report back what I hear.

Please don't suggest a .deb based system.  They're not bad, just 
unfamiliar to me.


A couple reasons for my motivation to move from Fedora:

I hate upstart (and systemd)
I hate the short update support life.
I hate being forced to do an 'upgrade' every year or so.


So, now that you've heard about what I hate, what are your thoughts?

Troy