Should I choose CL 6.7 or 7.1 for new server?

[jotterson]

Hell all,

Im getting a new server for use in my small shared hosting business and I am unable to decide which version of CloudLinux is best to have it provisioned with. I realize that 7.1 is the newest version, but newest does not always mean best when it comes to stability. I have a lot of small shared hosting customers on my cPanel servers running RHEL 5 that Ill need to migrate over toe a CL server, and Im leaning toward getting the server provisioned with CL 6.7

I just feel really unsure because Im not familiar with CloudLinux yet and I would really appreciate any opinions.

The server will be used for shared hosting of clients with large number of files / big data and a lot of mySQL usage because I host mostly customers with e-commerce web sites that use a lot of PHP scripts / blogs / galleries.

Im just really unsure of which version of CL to choose for my new server and could really use the advice of someone more experienced.

Thank you for any feedback!

[iseletsk]

I would recommend going with CL 6.x -- it is still much more stable then 7.x

[dave518]

Thanks for your reply Igor!

[clm]

Hello Igor,

Do you have an idea about how many months will be required for CL7 to start being recommended ? We don want to start a new server on CL6 and we can push off our next server for 4 to 6 months but will that be enough ?

Thanks

[iseletsk]

I don have exact timeframe. As more people using it -- we get more info on how stable it is. I think it is getting very stable -- but still not as good as CL6. Maybe another 2-6 months...

[cloudlinux.com]

Hi Igor, at the time of this writing, for cPanel servers, is CL6 still the one to go for, or is CL7 now the recommended version?

Are there any remaining CL7-specific issues we should be aware of?
Thanks in advance!

[iseletsk]

There is no kernel level issues with CL7 at this moment (solved with latest stable release)
Ruby/Python selector issues solved in beta repo, but not yet moved to production
alt-php4.4 (probably not needed by most) is not compatible with CL7 yet.

Otherwise CL7 is getting really stable, and I think we will start recommending it within next 3 months. For now we still recommend CL6

[clm]

Good news !
We are watching our disk space carefully but still have enough for a few more months before requiring an upgrade.
Do you know how many servers are running CL7 in production ?

[clm]

Hello, sorry to be impatient,
We use litespeed so ruby selector is not an option yet, PHP 4 is not required either.
If we had to start a new sever in a month is cloudlinux 7 still not a good choice ?

We are looking at the following configuration :

Cloudlinux 7
cPànel
Litespeed
Dual xeon E5 2660 v3
256 GB ECC DDR 4
12 x Intel 3500 DC 800 GB SSDs in Harware Raid 10 (lsi)

This configuration needs to last us at least 6 years so Cloudlinux 6 is not an option.

We will be migrating a much smaller Cloudlinux 5 server to this server which hosts about 250 small cpanel accounts.

Should we try to wait much longer ? Or is Cloudlinux 7 nearly stable, or maybe even already stable ?

[admin]

Sorry dont want to Hijack but could not help noticing "We use litespeed so ruby selector is not an option yet" I also use Litespeed and was about to try and add this function for customers. Is this an issue just on CL6 or is it also on CL7?

[clm]

It requires work from litespeed. They have it on their todo list but not with a high priority from what Ive understood. Maybe you could check litespeeds forums and let them know you are interested about this.

[bogdan.sh]

Ruby/Python selector are not working with litespeed (yet). And really there is no ETA on it.

About kernel to choose - better to use CloudLinux 6 which is more stable then 7.

[clm]

Hello,

We are waiting for Cloudlinux 7 to become stable enough before installing a new serveur.

We don want to install Cloudlinux 6 as we need a more recent version of CURL for PayPal and Ownloud implementations without causing any issues with cPanel.

Igor said you would start recommending Cloudlinux 7 in 2 to 6 months, as its nearly 2 months, I was wondering if it was there or nearly there.

Thanks