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CentOS is not your everyday Linux. It's a server distribution, meant to be used in production environment where users do not care about what applications they have installed. It's a distro that you will most likely run without any GUI, reboot once every other year or so, if that, and upgrade only when you really must, since the inclusion of even simplest binaries could be dreadfully risky for your setup.

CentOS is a distribution that deals in long-term stability and security. Branched off as a free version of the vastly popular RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS is everything the most important server distribution is, except the expensive, official support from the vendor. Speaking of support, CentOS 5.x versions, which are all based on RHEL5.x versions, are going to be supported until 2014, a total of seven years since the major release launch in 2007.

Note: InetServices recommends CentOS for most Dedicated Servers.

RedHat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the world's leading open source application platform.

Fedora

Fedora is a center for innovation in free and open source software, and creates a community where contributors of all kinds -- developers, documenters, artists, system administrators, and other free software and open source enthusiasts -- come together to advance the ecosystem for the benefit of everybody. The Fedora community contributes everything it builds back to the free and open source world and continues to make advances of significance to the broader community, as evidenced by the regular and rapid incorporation of its features into other Linux distributions. Regardless of which Linux distribution you use, you are relying on code developed within the Fedora Project.

Ubuntu

The Ubuntu Server Edition - built on the solid foundation of Debian which is known for its robust server installations has a strong heritage for reliable performance and predictable evolution. Ubuntu is designed with security in mind. You get free security updates for at least 18 months on the desktop and server. With the Long Term Support (LTS) version you get three years support on the desktop, and five years on the server. There is no extra fee for the LTS version, we make our very best work available to everyone on the same free terms. Upgrades to new versions of Ubuntu are and always will be free of charge.

The Ubuntu Server Edition can become the backbone of many of the services that a typical business needs to run to be successful. With no license fees, an expanding ecosystem, minimal maintenance, a growing community of peers and references, Ubuntu Server Edition is making many organisations reconsider how they use Linux for their information technology needs.

Debian

Debian is known for an abundance of options. The current stable release includes over twenty five thousand software packages for twelve computer architectures. These architectures range from the Intel/AMD 32-bit/64-bit architectures commonly found in personal computers to the ARM architecture commonly found in embedded systems and the IBM eServer zSeries mainframes. Prominent features of Debian are the APT package management system, repositories with large numbers of packages, strict policies regarding packages, and the high quality of releases. These practices allow easy upgrades between releases as well as automated installation and removal of packages.

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a complete operating system. The kernel, device drivers and all of the userland utilities, such as the shell, are held in the same source code revision tracking tree, whereas with Linux distributions, the kernel, userland utilities and applications are developed separately, then packaged together in various ways by others.

Note: InetServices recommends FreeBSD for advanced users only.

Quad-Core Xeon® 5410 Harpertown Series

Dual Core Xeon® 5000/5100 Woodcrest Series

Intel’s Dual-Core Xeon® processor, the server version of the venerable Core 2, is ideal for intense computing environments, 32-bit and 64-bit business-critical applications, and high-end hosting servers. The breakthrough performance & reliability of Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® servers make them a great choice for virtualization and business-critical applications. The Woodcrest, combined with Fully Buffered DIMM (FBDIMM) technology will deliver up to 3 times the performance of previous-generation single-core Intel® Xeon® processors.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 3200 Kentsfield Series

Based on the innovative Intel® Core microarchitecture and optimized for low power, quad-core, 64-bit computing, this processor is ideal for low cost, high performance servers and compute nodes. Combined with the Intel® 3000 chipset family and ECC DDR2 memory technology, the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3200 series-based platforms deliver leading performance to other single processor systems.