What's the best distro for hosting a server? >Lightweight

Debian.

Those criteria don't really rule out anything. Redhat is a full featured server oriented OS and runs on a fraction of a percent of one haswell core and a couple hundred MB of RAM.

Debian

sleep tite chicken

I'm using a lubuntu machine.

>>57594043
Alpine Linux

>>57594043
Peppermint OS 7. Lightweight XFCE Ubuntu based distro, currently running my media server 24/7

>>57594970

>lubuntu
>server
>gui
wot

>>57594043
debian or centos, depending on how much you will be doing and the hardware of the server

>>57595101
Fight me, it was my first time making a server.

>>57595197

That's a good time to start learning shell senpai.

>>57594043
Centos

>>57594043
We use a mixture of Ubuntu LTS and CentOS.

Ubuntu is my preferred distro as long as you stick to repository packages. Also make sure you set up unattended-upgrades.

>>57595215
I would if I knew what shell was ;w;

>>57594043
Debian

>>57595239
Command line

Solus is what my company's server uses. 10,000,000 computers

>>57595239
damn senpai do you even Loonix?

>>57595236
All of this. Ubuntu server is simple and great.

>>57595288

seconded. If you absolutely hate ubuntu there is debian, and if you have a boner for RPMs there is CentOS.

The amount of people commenting desktop distros in this thread is laughable.

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Solus

>>57595307
I'm running my server off an old shitposting desktop, fight me

>>57595333

You're just wasting resources running a DE all the time for an unattended computer. Even moreso when it is old hardware.

And no i will not fight you, this is /g/ not /manlets/

>>57595287
Not until I set up my home server, then installed a copy on an old laptop.

>>57594043
Solus

>>57595345
Resources as in electricity? Who cares

>>57594043
Like everyone else is saying, Debian or Ubuntu.

These only take up 40mb of ram on the default install.

Don't run a gui on your server, it's a sin. Just ssh in and get shit done

Can recommend Ubuntu Server OP.
My clients have used it for Cloud alot.

>Headless
>Support

I've had one running my house for past two years, Fans never come on, and it never goes down. Debian backend so if there's a problem, Google ALWAYS solves it. Great OS.

>>57595345
>You're just wasting resources running a DE all the time for an unattended computer. Even moreso when it is old hardware.

This N*GR gets it.

Servers with DE's are shameful messes.

>>57594043
I've ran debian, arch, gentoo, slackware, ubuntu server, and rhel on server machines
by far, I prefer adminning arch and debian servers
gentoo is complicated as fuck and requires you to babysit it too much (make sure compilations work, make sure things aren't slated for removal by fucking portage, etc)
slackware is just too fucking big, and updating packages requires me to be the package manager, no fucking thanks when it's running a bunch of services
ubuntu server was just basically debian with PPAs
RHEL is pretty tame, nothing special, does the job, even though yum is pretty slow and shitty

Those requirements would fit for any Linux distribution desu.

For hosting my servers, I use ProxMox

Debian always worked fine for me, but I'm actually trying to get used to FreeBSD

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If you need to stretch hardware as far as possible, Any BSD is better than any Linux.

Best Linux distro though? Probably a well optimized Gentoo.

>>57594060
fpbp
>>57594138
tpbp

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>mfw running a server on Windows 7 Ultimate

>>57594043
Debian
CentOS

ubuntu lts

>>57594060
>>57594138
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