Is Ubuntu a bad distro for a standalone mysql database server?
- by DhruvPathak
I read an article here :
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/12/08/which-linux-distribution-for-mysql-server/
On the other end there are Debian and Ubuntu. Both use tool called
dpkg for package management. There isn’t a month that I log in to a
system based on either distribution where there are no issues with
packages consistency. Unfinished installations, unresolved conflicts
are so common that it’s just beyond simple negligence. The packaging
system is just not robust enough. Another problem is that one broken
package may block you from installing or uninstalling anything else.
Imagine that someone left system in such shape, you prepared for
downtime, stopped MySQL and… error – text editor has not been properly
installed, so you cannot upgrade MySQL either until the problem is
fixed. In a stressful situation when downtime clock ticks – annoying
at best
We prefer Ubuntu server because of familiarity and Ubuntu also being development environment.
Questions:
Is Ubuntu used commonly in production for a mysql database server ?
Is it worth the trouble ever to have one distro eg Ubuntu in web server, and another say Red Hat in database server ? Or Is a homogenous server pool a better choice ?
