Posted by: compoundeye
Posted on: 2008-11-17 19:06:00
Hello,
I'm assuming that dreamhost is running some kind of unix.
but how can i find out exactly what os and version is running on my shared server box?
Posted by: sdayman
Posted on: 2008-11-17 19:35:00
I always go with 'uname -a' and this wiki entry:
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Debian
-Scott
Posted by: compoundeye
Posted on: 2008-11-17 20:03:00
thank you scott.
I'm putting together some documentation about a site I've worked on and also need to document the hardware the site is running on. I think its a bit silly to need to do that, but thats what they want. Any idea how i can find that out?
cheers
mat
Posted by: vicm3
Posted on: 2008-11-17 20:11:00
For the hardware cat /proc/cpuinfo
free -m for the memory and swap
Posted by: Lensman
Posted on: 2008-11-18 10:05:00
In reply to:I'm putting together some documentation about a site I've worked on and also need to document the hardware the site is running on. I think its a bit silly to need to do that, but thats what they want. Any idea how i can find that out?
It's not all that silly in many cases, but certainly is so when the software is hardware-independent. There are a not-insignificant number of sites running software that's written in C++. In such cases, the program can be OS and even CPU dependent.
For instance, at the company I work for, we have this one server application that has an AMD-specific dll compiled into it.
But I agree that in most cases, the hardware is irrelevant.
OTOH, are they just talking about the class of server you're running on so they can get an idea of how much horsepower they need?
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Posted by: patricktan
Posted on: 2008-11-19 00:49:00
When will we have something which is totally independent??? That will make developers lives much easier.
Posted by: sXi
Posted on: 2008-11-19 13:29:00
It's the developer that decides to make something HW dependent, not the language.
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Posted by: Lensman
Posted on: 2008-11-19 17:04:00
In reply to:It's the developer that decides to make something HW dependent, not the language.
Though there are many languages out there where you have to try pretty hard to make your program hardware *dependent*. 
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