From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 14:17:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1821065679 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:17:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F7D8FC0C for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from overdrive.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D571EF7427 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:36 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: FreeBSD Message-Id: <20101123090036.6caf33b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20101123084342.4ab645d9@scorpio> References: <4CEB8EE1.1080702@kukulies.org> <20101123084342.4ab645d9@scorpio> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:17:42 -0000 In response to Jerry : > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:52:33 +0100 > Eva Kukulies articulated: > > > I'm thinking of renting a hosting server and I have an offer of > > getting a FreeBSD 8.1 server. I want to run MySQL 5.x, PHP5, > > apache2.2 on it and I'm asking myself > > whether it would matter if I choose 32 of 64 bit ? > > I have all three running on an 8.1/64 amd system successfully. It was only a few years ago that my advice was "Don't got 64 bit unless you know you need it." Of course, things are always changing, and at this point in time, my advice would be "only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that won't work in 64 bit." I can speak personally that we have a multitude of servers running PHP and Apache 2.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD with no trouble. I don't use MySQL, but I have a hard time believing that it's not 64 bit clean. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/