recommended OS for Redis

[jeane paul Soliva]

Greetings,

im building a home server and has a vm's in it. and those vm's will serve as redis server only. is there any best or fitted OS just for serving redis that has low footprint for the Host OS and nice security since i will be serving it for my website in the internet. 

should i go for a UNIX or Linux OS?

[Julien Martin]

Hi,

I would go for some flavour of Linux (ubuntu is my favourite).

Which other UNIX OS did you have in mind?

J.

[Dvir Volk]

Linux for sure, Ubuntu server would be a good fit.

There is a saying that goes, "Mac is for developing web apps, Linux for running them, and Windows for checking they work on IE". 

Redis is not a web app, but the rule applies :)

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[Matthew Alton]

Assuming that you're using an x86 architecture, Solaris would be your only real Unix option.  Using Solaris would be ultra silly, though, given the superiority in all categories that you can get from Linux.  Ubuntu is an excellent distro for beginners.  I use CentOS for servers.  Matter of taste, really.

Matthew Alton

UNIX Systems Programming & Administration

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth

[Josiah Carlson]

There is roughly one reason to use Solaris: ZFS. But you can get ZFS in FreeBSD, and IIRC, there's both a GPL port of ZFS for Linux, as well as a couple other options.

But I digress and agree with everything others have said: pick a Linux distro.

 - Josiah

[bugant]

Having a look to the doc http://redis.io/topics/admin it seems Linux
would be the best fit:

"We suggest deploying Redis using the Linux operating system. Redis is
also tested heavily on osx, and tested from time to time on FreeBSD
and OpenBSD systems. However Linux is where we do all the major stress
testing, and where most production deployments are working."


Cheers,
matteo.

[jeane paul Soliva]

Greetings,

WOW!!!!, thanks for all the reply!!, this is a nice community, i get all the advice by just reading around thank you everyone!,

at first, i have installed ubuntu already in 4 VM running KVM. I really like UNIX, since i am a mac user ever since and freeBSD was my first OS when i was a kid.. 

I've read around and as far as I've learned, installing BSD around KVM has bad performance like I/O and installing it takes time and effort(if i wanted to) which i don't have.

i wanted to install BSD/UNIX since i wanted to get barely close to metal and i know UNIX has a nice security performance than linux, and Unix has nice performance in memory management too.  

at first i really wanted to install VM in NetBSD/ FreeBSD. but installing it really takes time. i work 14hrs a day as a web app engineer, and i have dont have much time configuring out a server. 

anway, im fine with ubuntu server now running on a ivy bridge i5 and 32gb memory. i guess this is all i need right now. its serving a Redis as a primary data store to my apps, and apps at my job.

redis is so fun to use :)

thanks again for the suggestions, more power!!