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CloudLinux vs Ubuntu: What are the differences?
Developers describe CloudLinux as "The super-platform for stability & efficiency in shared hosting". CloudLinux OS is designed for shared hosting providers. It isolates each customer into a separate “Lightweight Virtualized Environment” (LVE), which partitions, allocates, and limits server resources, like memory, CPU. On the other hand, Ubuntu is detailed as "The leading OS for PC, tablet, phone and cloud". Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
CloudLinux and Ubuntu can be categorized as "Operating Systems" tools.
Ubuntu is much more faster over Windows and helps to get software and other utilities easier and within a short span of time compared to Windows.
Ubuntu helps to get robustness and resiliency over Windows. Ubuntu runs faster than Windows on every computer that I have ever tested. LibreOffice (Ubuntu's default office suite) runs much faster than Microsoft Office on every computer that I have ever tested.
Global familiarity, free, widely used, and as a debian distro feels more comfortable when rapidly switching between local macOS and remote command lines.
CentOS does boast quite a few security/stability improvements, however as a RHEL-based distro, differs quite significantly in the command line and suffers from slightly less frequent package updates. (Could be a good or bad thing depending on your use-case and if it is public facing)
At the moment of the decision, my desktop was the primary place I did work. Due to this, I can't have it blow up on me while I work. While Arch is interesting and powerful, Ubuntu offers (at least for me) a lot more stability and lets me focus on other things than maintaining my own OS installation.
Pros of CloudLinux
Pros of Ubuntu
- Free to use226
- Easy setup for testing discord bot96
- Gateway Linux Distro56
- Simple interface53
- Don't need driver installation in most cases7
- Many active communities4
- Open Source4
- Easy to custom2
- Many flavors/distros based on ubuntu1
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Cons of CloudLinux
Cons of Ubuntu
- Demanding system requirements4
- Adds overhead and unnecessary complexity over Debian3
- Systemd1
- Snapd installed by default1